{"id":56,"date":"2008-02-27T21:08:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T04:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=56"},"modified":"2008-02-27T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T04:12:05","slug":"21-year-old-playwright-to-join-theatre-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/27\/21-year-old-playwright-to-join-theatre-history\/","title":{"rendered":"21-year-old Playwright To Join Theatre History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Brown, arts correspondent
\nTuesday February 19, 2008
\nThe Guardian<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

A 21-year-old playwright is to join theatre history as one of the youngest writers to have a debut play performed in London’s West End.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Polly
\nPhotograph: Alex Macnaughton\/Rex Features
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Polly Stenham’s story of a dysfunctional middle class family, That Face, surprised most critics when it opened at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, central London, last year, and went on to win a string of awards.<\/p>\n

Now a wider audience will have the chance to see it when it opens at the Duke of York’s theatre for a 10-week run in May.<\/p>\n

Sonia Friedman, a West End producer, said she wanted to be involved in the play as soon as she saw it. “I can’t remember the last time I sat in a theatre and felt so moved and stunned by a theatrical experience. It was just so extraordinarily insightful and exciting,” she said.<\/p>\n

The critics also loved it, with the Observer calling it “gob-smacking” and the Daily Telegraph critic calling it one of the most astonishing debuts he’d seen.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at Guardian UK<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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