Buzz Buzz! Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National Theatre

"How did Simon Russell Beale and Anne-Marie Duff get inside the minds of Hamlet and Saint Joan? Why did Tom Stoppard create three plays for The Coast of Utopia instead of one? What lay behind Katie Mitchell's controversial re-working of Strindberg? How did Harold Pinter go about adapting Proust for the stage?" "For the answers to these and scores of other key questions, Buzz Buzz! is the perfect guide. Consisting of interviews with over a hundred leading playwrights, actors and directors, Jonathan Croall's illuminating book offers a unique insight into their work at the National Theatre over a period of fifteen years."--BOOK JACKET.

Jonathan Croall is the author of Gielgud: A Theatrical Life; The Coming of Godot: A Short History of a Masterpiece (nominated for the 2006 Theatre Book Prize); and three books in the series 'The National Theatre at Work': Hamlet Observed, Peter Hall's 'Bacchai' and Inside the Molly House. He edits and writes for the programmes at the Old Vic theatre, and was editor of the National Theatre's StageWrite magazine 1992-2007.