R C Sherriff’s First World War play proved an international hit in 1929 despite being comprehensively rejected by the London theatre establishment.Read
Michelle Magorian’s 1981 children’s novel about a wartime evacuee finding love and security with an elderly widower became a successful television film in 1998, with John Thaw in the title role.Read
When Chess was pitched, it must have produced hoots of derision from the money men. There can’t be a more dull-sounding title. Yet Chess isn’t boring – far from it. Read
After announcing she was stepping down as artistic director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Rachel Kavanaugh talks to Diane Parkes about her plans.
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