Howard Brenton was born in Portsmouth in 1942. His many plays
include Christie in Love (Portable Theatre, 1969); Revenge (Theatre
Upstairs, 1969); Magnificence (Royal Court Theatre,1973); The
Churchill Play (Nottingham Playhouse, 1974, and twice revived by
the RSC, 1978 and 1988); Bloody Poetry (FocoNovo, 1984, and Royal
Court Theatre, 1987); Weapons of Happiness (National Theatre,
Evening Standard Award, 1976); Epsom Downs (Joint Stock Theatre,
1977); Sore Throats (RSC,1978); The Romans in Britain (National
Theatre, 1980, revived at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2006);
Thirteenth Night (RSC,1981); The Genius (1983), Greenland (1988)
and Berlin Bertie (1992), all presented by the Royal Court; Kit's
Play (RADA Jerwood Theatre, 2000); Paul (National Theatre, 2005);
In Extremis (Shakespeare's Globe, 2006 and 2007); Never So Good
(National Theatre, 2008); The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
adapted from the novel by Robert Tressell (Liverpool Everyman and
Chichester Festival Theatre, 2010); Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare's
Globe, 2010 and 2011); 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); #aiww:
The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre, 2013); The Guffin (NT
Connections, 2013); Drawing the Line (Hampstead Theatre, 2013);
Doctor Scroggy's War (Shakespeare's Globe, 2014); Lawrence After
Arabia (Hampstead Theatre, 2016); The Blinding Light (Jermyn Street
Theatre, 2017), The Shadow Factory (NST City, Southampton, 2018),
Jude (Hampstead Theatre, 2019) and Cancelling Socrates (Jermyn
Street Theatre, London, 2022).
Collaborations with other writers include Brassneck (with David
Hare, Nottingham Playhouse, 1972); Pravda (with David Hare,
National Theatre, Evening Standard Award, 1985) and Moscow Gold
(with Tariq Ali, RSC, 1990).
Versions of classics include The Life of Galileo (1980) and
Danton's Death (1982), both for the National Theatre; Goethe's
Faust (1995/6) for the RSC; a new version of Danton's Death for the
National Theatre (2010); and versions of Strindberg's Dances of
Death (Gate Theatre, 2013), Miss Julie (Theatre by the Lake,
Keswick, & Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 2017) and Creditors
(Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, & Jermyn Street Theatre, London,
2019).
He wrote thirteen episodes of the BBC1 drama series Spooks
(2001–05, BAFTA Best Drama Series, 2003).
'The play bursts through the constraints of costume drama. Brenton
understands how to work the audience at the Globe'
*Independent*
'It takes a big, generous spirit to fill the Globe, and in this
Brenton follows Shakespeare - not just with asides and soliloquies,
but with a large colourful canvas'
*Daily Mail*
'Anne Boleyn has drama, royalty, sex, scheming... in short, as much
entertainment value as a Tudor execution'
*Time Out*
'This is no dry and dusty history lesson... a witty and engrossing
impression of the times that gave birth to our first Elizabethan
age, and the subsequent reformation'
*British Theatre Guide*
'What an absolute delight... a beautifully written piece of theatre
that instantly draws you in into the life and times of both Anne
Boleyn and King James I'
*Whatsonstage.com*
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