Abi Morgan

Screenwriter Abi Morgan: ‘I am absolutely the same, but profoundly changed’
The acclaimed creator of The Split and The Iron Lady has endured three gruelling years of loss and illness. Now she’s written it all up, and it reads like a thriller
Rachel Cooke
01, May, 2022 @10:00 AM

The week in TV: The Split; Art That Made Us; House of Maxwell
Abi Morgan’s sharp legal family drama returns; a journey around Britain’s creative history inspires; and the Maxwell saga is raked over again
Hannah Jane Parkinson
10, Apr, 2022 @8:30 AM

The Split series two review – steamy legal saga raises the bar again
With its flagrant infidelities and families at war, Abi Morgan’s divorce lawyer drama is a tasty, racy treat you’ll want to binge
Ellen E Jones
11, Feb, 2020 @10:00 PM

Women worldwide must be heard and respected | Letters
Letters: Seventy-six women from the arts, business world, law and politics, including Emma Watson, Keira Knightley and Emma Thompson, call on governments to support and protect women fighting for their rights around the world
Letters
08, Mar, 2019 @6:59 AM

Tuesday’s best TV: My F-ing Tourette’s Family; The Split
A new series follows two brothers with the syndrome, while Hannah and her sisters arrange to meet their absent father in Abi Morgan’s legal drama
Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier, David Stubbs, Ben Arnold, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Andrew Mueller and Paul Howlett
01, May, 2018 @5:20 AM

The week in TV: The Split; The Woman in White; The Terror; Westworld
Abi Morgan’s new divorce drama is a delightful family affair, The Terror is tremendous, and Westworld is back on track
Euan Ferguson
29, Apr, 2018 @7:00 AM

The Split review – Abi Morgan’s shiny lawyers show life in all its wondrous mess
Nicola Walker stars in this gorgeously slick, witty and thoroughly grown-up tale of high-end divorce lawyers by the Bafta-winning writer
Lucy Mangan
24, Apr, 2018 @9:01 PM

The Split: Abi Morgan on how she blew the wig off the British legal drama
They wear sharp suits and power-walk to meetings with scandalous celebrity clients. But the solicitor sisters in this glamorous new divorce drama are not what they seem
Sarah Hughes
18, Apr, 2018 @2:54 PM

Abi Morgan: ‘Women can be as violent, mercurial and complex as men’
The writer recalls the anger that fuelled her early play Splendour – and reveals she is directing her rage into a drama about the abuses of power in Hollywood
Abi Morgan
22, Feb, 2018 @6:00 AM

Tiny Dynamite review – flashy return for Abi Morgan's fractured love story
First staged in 2001, Morgan’s elliptical drama still intrigues – even if this long overdue revival is insufficiently charged
Lyn Gardner
15, Jan, 2018 @6:56 PM

Brexit Shorts: The End by Abi Morgan, starring Penelope Wilton – video
‘There’s no coming back from this’ … After 43 years together, Helen is shocked that her husband is leaving
Jess Gormley, Noah Payne-Frank, Liese Spencer and Chris Wiegand
26, Jun, 2017 @10:11 AM

Leading playwrights create Brexit dramas for the Guardian
As the Guardian launches Brexit Shorts, a series of films about the seismic effects of the EU referendum, playwrights David Hare and Abi Morgan assess the UK’s political turmoil
Chris Wiegand
19, Jun, 2017 @5:00 AM
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