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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

‘My poor kid has been haunted by it’: Harry Potter and the reviewer that mattered most by Jack Thorne

Jack Thorne’s baby son was a key influence on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. So it was a big day when he was old enough to see it with the playwright for the first time A few week…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AM
Friday, April 7, 2023

‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage by Jack Thorne

The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud’s struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths I…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM
Monday, May 15, 2017

Achtung! Jack Thorne on braving the strange, monstrous world of Woyzeck by Jack Thorne

When the playwright was asked to adapt Georg Büchner’s fragmented masterpiece he screamed inside. He explains how he got to the soul of the playGeorg Büchner’s Woyzeck is…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM
Monday, February 6, 2017

Jack Thorne's Junkyard: how I turned an adventure playground into a musical by Jack Thorne

Junk playgrounds had sheer drops, death-defying rope swings and were always being set on fire. The playwright explains why he has written a show about these chaotic spaces and the kids who b…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AM
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Jack Thorne: My first 20 plays? They’re all dire by Jack Thorne

Everyone told me to do something else but I persevered as a playwright thanks to Simon Stephens, who said every writer has a myth. It’s puzzled me ever since… • Mark Lawso…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM
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