As Mark Rylance returns to the West End stage as the rambunctious Rooster in Jez Butterworth's shaggy state-of-the-nation play, six writers consider its power and legacy It was the play that…
'Ralph Fiennes strode into the dressing room and said he loved the show " we booked him there and then. The whole thing was very kick-bollocks-scramble' Sean Foley, co-writer and performer I…
Patricia Routledge: 'I kept bashing into doors and they kept bashing into me. I got through two bottles of arnica in rehearsals alone'The idea came to me in 1970. I'd written a series of sho…
Lee Hall: 'I'd fax Elton my lyrics " then he'd call me up and sing them down the phone'The moment we finished the film, we took it to the Cannes film festival. It was only a small screening …