Early Works of Playwrights
RLN disagreed with my suggestion that playwrights in the 20-30 age range are unlikely to be ‘doing their best work.’
It’s true that many writers did good work young.
To this cause David lan and the Young Vic and the Barbican are staging some early work of your writers/directors.
‘Everything young is beautiful,’ says director David Lan.
From Robert Lepage’s Dragon’s Trilogy, written when he was 27, to Wole Soyinka’s classic The Lion and the Jewel, which the Nigerian writer produced aged 23.
Dragon’s Trilogy from 16 September, Barbican, London EC2 (0207 638 4141). The Lion and the Jewel, from 28 September, Barbican. For details of other productions, including plays by Marlowe and Buchner. See http://www.barbican.org.uk/bite or here
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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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