The theatre in the public conversation by Michael Billington @INSIGHTSPublicLecturesNCL
The theatre in the public conversation by Michael Billington @INSIGHTSPublicLecturesNCL
Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Drawing on 60 years of reviewing and broadcasting, most prominently as drama critic of the Guardian from 1971 to 2019, the biographer of Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, and Tom Stoppard will discuss the state of the British stage, in conversation with Jo Robinson, Professor of Theatre and Performance at Newcastle University.

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