But as directed by Terry Johnson, a playwright marking out a busy career of late in this additional capacity, what seemed like an extended stunt back at the National emerges with greater texture 17 years on.
Nor, it appears, does the playwright Mark St . Germain("Freud's Last Session"), who assembled this talking Wikipedia page.
The judging panel includes the playwright Mark Ravenhill, and the winner's play will be staged at the NT.
Last year Soho Rep mounted a reading of the work staged by the British playwright Mark Ravenhill.
The playwright Mark Snyder is a native of Ohio, where he has set "As Wide as I Can See," a drama now at the Here Arts Center.
Next month the renowned playwright Mark Ravenhill will make his opera debut in the 107-seat theatre, directing his updated, jazz-inflected version of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea.
Written and created by Will & Grace writer Gary Janetti and award-winning playwright Mark Ravenhill, Vicious is the first time that an LGBT couple has been cast at the fore of an ITV comedy.
Meanwhile, there are two outstanding new musical theatre pieces in London Road, about the Ipswich prostitute murders, at the National Theatre, and former Soft Cell front man Marc Almond in Ten Plagues at the Edinburgh Festival, written by playwright Mark Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell as an oratorio of lament for plague and Aids victims.
All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Nancy Meckler, showed up effectively on the main Stratford stage too, and the adjacent Swan Theatre hosted an uproarious updated revival of Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, directed by Sean Foley, and playwright Mark Ravenhill's vividly engaging and sparkish "response" to Voltaire's Candide.
His solo career has included dips into the work of Jacques Brel and Nico; yesterday the singer was on stage at the Traverse Theater here performing "Ten Plagues," a deeply haunting song cycle by the playwright Mark Ravenhill ("Shopping and ________") and the composer Conor Mitchell.
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe a few weeks ago, the English playwright Mark Ravenhill delivered a scathing opening address, taking his contemporaries to task for accommodating themselves to the political and economic culture responsible for the global financial crash while abandoning their role as seekers and tellers of truth.
