Robert Mckee
This Guardian interview/article claims
“Robert McKee, it is probably fair to say, is the most influential storytelling theorist since Aristotle. Graduates of his seminar have gathered at least 26 Academy awards and 94 nominations.”
His book is a good modern reworking of Aristotle’s poetics so is worth a read on craft but I didn’t know he was supposedly that influential…
“For all McKee’s influence, however, over thousands of writers, has he ever been thanked in an Oscar speech? “They say, ‘When I win the Oscar I’m going to get up and thank you’.” He sighs. “And then they win the Oscar and they get up and thank their mother.”"
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About me
I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.
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Recent Work
Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).
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Nakamitsu
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Yellow Gentlemen
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