Heathcote Williams

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Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary
Richard Adams writes: I first met Heathcote Williams in the early 1970s when he asked me to design the poster and programme for a touring production of his play AC/DC

Richard Adams

27, Jul, 2017 @4:18 PM

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Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary
While Heathcote Williams was indeed primarily committed to the written word, he was equally and superlatively concerned with both the performed, and even the painted word

Michael Horovitz

23, Jul, 2017 @3:45 PM

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Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary
Jan Woolf writes: I met Heathcote Williams through the No Glory in War campaign

Jan Woolf

16, Jul, 2017 @2:42 PM

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Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary
Malcolm Ritchie writes: I first met Heathcote Williams in the early 1960s, just as his brilliant book The Speakers was published

Malcolm Ritchie

07, Jul, 2017 @4:50 PM

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Heathcote Williams, radical poet, playwright and actor, dies aged 75
His poems blasted the arms trade, consumerism and the tabloids, and he was also an accomplished painter and sculptor

Luke Harding

02, Jul, 2017 @12:54 PM

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Home Truths review – a history of the housing crisis in nine plays
The homeless people’s theatre company Cardboard Citizens takes a long look at housing, from Victorian slum life and 70s squatting to present day inequalities

Lyn Gardner

23, Apr, 2017 @11:53 AM

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Heathcote Williams: 'Pinter was slightly intimidating – he paused quite a lot'
As his play The Local Stigmatic is revived 50 years after its debut, the reclusive playwright looks back at the London underworld, the rise of celebrity culture and the debt he owes to Harold Pinter

Interview by Nancy Groves

12, May, 2016 @7:00 AM

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William Gaskill, former artistic director of the Royal Court, dies aged 85
Peter Gill and Vicky Featherstone pay tribute to a ‘brilliant, uncompromising’ director who was celebrated for his productions of Bond and Brecht – and for battling stage censorship

Chris Wiegand

04, Feb, 2016 @3:22 PM

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Polly Samson: ‘It’s the most gleeful sort of writing there is’
The books interview: The novelist talks about her recent ‘horrible times’, her astonishing family history and writing lyrics for her husband David Gilmour

Susanna Rustin

07, Mar, 2015 @11:00 AM

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Keith Allen, actor – portrait of the artist
Actor Keith Allen talks about his kids Lily and Alfie, his love of Shelley and why he is no coward

Interview by Laura Barnett

26, Mar, 2013 @4:57 PM

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Your books of the year

From history to fiction, politics to poetry, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2012

28, Dec, 2012 @10:55 PM

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Polly Samson: 'Don't call me Mrs Gilmour' | feature
Polly Samson's novels and short stories have had rave reviews, but will she ever escape her rock-star husband's shadow? By Carole Cadwalladr

Carole Cadwalladr

07, Nov, 2010 @12:05 AM

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