Archive - Samuel Adamson: The Essence of the Thing

Kevin Elyot’s Archive and Mouth to Mouth (2001)

Moral questions

Jun 28 •

May 2024

Kevin Elyot’s The Day I Stood Still (1998)

‘It was like we were outside time’

May 5 •

April 2024

Michael Blakemore’s Next Season (1968)

‘Who could be more unknown than an unknown actor?’

Apr 28 •

Kevin Elyot’s My Night with Reg (1994)

A triumphant second play – A play with time – Sex in the time of Aids – A unique Aids play – A serious comedy – Inexpressible loss

Apr 21 •

Kevin Elyot’s Coming Clean (1982)

An actor writes a play – Monogamy v. open relationships – Elyot’s voice – Critical homophobia – A remarkable letter – How to survive a plague

Apr 7 •

March 2024

My writing habits: an interview with THESP

Hello, I spoke recently to THESP about my writing room and writing habits, Ibsen, the significance of London’s Bush Theatre and Kiln Theatre, and my new…

Mar 19 •

An article for The Stage

Mar 2 •

December 2023

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s After Julius (1965)

Absolute honesty ...

Dec 10, 2023 •

November 2023

Elizabeth Harrower’s The Catherine Wheel (1960)

The world was full of infantile adults

Nov 11, 2023 •

October 2023

Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs (1997)

A convict, a writer-trickster, a quarantine

Oct 29, 2023 •

David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter (1982)

Oct 14, 2023 •

September 2023

Rosamond Lehmann’s Dusty Answer (1927)

It had all been experience, and that was a salutary thing

Sep 24, 2023 •

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