Howard Brenton is a major and frequently provocative voice in British post-war political theatre. He has written or co-written more than 40 plays, as well as journalism, essays, poetry, a novel and several dramatic adaptations. He has also written for television. His best known plays are:
Christie In Love(1969);
Brassneck(with David Hare, 1973);
Magnificence(1973);
The Churchill Play(1974);
Weapons Of Happiness(1976);
Epsom Downs(1977);
TheRomans In Britain(1980);
Bloody Poetry(1984);
Pravda(with David Hare, 1985). His work is frequently pugnacious and mordantly satirical, employing lampoons and caricatures - the character of Lambert La Roux, the megalomaniac and right-wing newspaper magnate in
Pravda- to hit topical targets. He is also an accomplished practitioner of blackā¦
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