Andrea Dunbar
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New drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob Too
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Was the Royal Court right to put on Rita, Sue and Bob Too? We asked three playwrights to look afresh at Andrea Dunbar’s story of two girls preyed on by an older man
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4 out of 5 stars.Seeming less uproarious but more political and perceptive than when it first appeared in 1982, Andrea Dunbar’s portrait of Thatcher’s Britain still chills
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Accusations of censorship prompt the theatre to go back on its cancellation and invite the production to return for its run
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The Royal Court had its reasons for cancelling a touring production of the drama – but we don’t ban Othello for its racist overtones, we update it, writes Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Letters: Audiences can tell the difference between provocation and exploitation, writes Justin Sherin, while Patrick Kennedy suggests a braver theatre would have gone ahead with the production
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Currently starring in Simon Stephens’ version of The Seagull, Lesley Sharp talked about creating characters with Mike Leigh, teaming up with Suranne Jones, writing her first novel – and the joy of animated caterpillars
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Dunbar’s bleakly funny tale of a menage a trois captured 80s austerity. What can her defiant heroines tell audiences today?
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As Stafford-Clark tours Rita, Sue and Bob Too with his company Out of Joint, his one-time assistant celebrates a career spent speaking up for the nation – and nurturing talents such as Andrea Dunbar and Caryl Churchill
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Troubled playwright Andrea Dunbar is brought to life in an affectionate, unsentimental debut novel
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George Costigan: ‘I watched the premiere with my wife on one side of me – and my mother on the other’
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The editor of the BBC’s Storyville on the richness of today’s documentary film-making
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London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from hlcarpenter.com and Observer archive, alongside new recollections from Wole Soyinka, Ann Jellicoe, Amanda Redman, Sally Hawkins and others
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More writers are under commission and on development schemes than ever before but the Royal Court receives 3,000 scripts out of the blue each year. Three of its shows this autumn were plucked from the slush pile
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David Hare: my ideal theatre