A film based on Assassin's Creed is currently in the works with Michael Fassbender in the lead, and playwright – yes, playwright – Michael Lesslie working on the screenplay.
Leading playwrights include the prolific Michel Tremblay, who has been a force since his groundbreaking Les Belles-Soeurs (1968; "The Sisters-in-Law"), and John Gray, who established his reputation with Billy Bishop Goes to War (1981).
The same trip also offers a creative writing option, led by playwright, director and actor Steven Berkoff.
This leads the playwright into a series of pronouncements about life and drama that positively invite disagreement: "before 1956 all English plays were Home Counties rubbish", for instance.
For the past decade, led by playwrights like David Edgar, Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and David Hare as well as the Tricycle's so-called tribunal plays, political theater appears to have gained fresh momentum here.
The period is famous for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake.
One reason Pamela Moller Kareman, the director, chose the play, which opened at Lincoln Center in 2001 with Donald Sutherland in the lead, is the playwright.
A few Broadway producers have suggested such a motivation this week, given that "Glengarry" – which is now in previews – is already a box office hit with $6 million in advance ticket sales because of its starry names (lead actor Al Pacino, playwright David Mamet) and therefore does not need reviews (especially if they are negative ones).
Like all her work, it left me asking the question: "Who are we?" In the mid-90s, Churchill's restless questioning of form, story and the political responsibility of the playwright led her to write three plays that attack themselves.
Writing Home led to the playwright appearing as a stage or screen character, first in the 1999 theatre adaptation of Miss Shepherd's story, and to a more general loosening up whereby the once-wary Bennett began offering opinions and freely discussing his private life.
