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Essays, Articles, Reviews, etc
Various pieces related to Peter Gill's work. See also the menu of cast lists and other details of Peter Gill's productions.
- The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, September-November 2007, January-April 2008
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- Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900, by Jonathan Croall
- The Topicality of Earnest, by Al Senter
- Gaslight, by Patrick Hamilton, Old Vic, June 2007
- Theatre by diktat
- Emphasis on top-down thinking means that writers are now delivering drafts instead of plays. An article by Peter Gill.
- The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville-Barker, National Theatre, Lyttleton, April 2006
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- Observer review, 30 April 2006
- Sunday Times review, 30 April 2006
- Mail on Sunday review, 30 April 2006
- Independent on Sunday review, 30 April 2006
- Sunday Telegraph review, 30 April 2006
- Daily Telegraph review, 27 April 2006
- Times review, 26 April 2006
- Independent review, 26 April 2006
- Guardian review, 26 April 2006
- Evening Standard review, 26 April 2006
- FT review, 26 April 2006
- Guardian article, 25 April 2006
- Independent article, 20 April 2006
- Peter Gill interview
- Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, Comedy Theatre, September 2005
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- Telegraph review, 29 September 2005
- Evening Standard review, 29 September 2005
- Independent review, 29 September 2005
- Times review, 29 September 2005
- Guardian review, 28 September 2005
- Peter Gill interview, Telegraph, 21 September 2005
- Anne Reid interview, Times, 19 September 2005
- Obituary: Anthony Creighton
- Gillian Barge Obituary, 24 November 2003
- Scenes from the Big Picture by Owen McCafferty, Cottesloe Theatre, April 2003
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- Independent review, 22 April 2003
- Mail on Sunday review, 20 April 2003
- Sunday Times review, 20 April 2003
- Observer review, 20 April 2003
- Sunday Telegraph review, 20 April 2003
- Independent on Sunday review, 20 April 2003
- Sunday Express review, 20 April 2003
- Stage review, 17 April 2003
- Time Out review, 15 April 2003
- FT review, 14 April 2003
- Alison Chitty interview, 14 April 2003
- Metro review, 14 April 2003
- Times review, 12 April 2003
- Guardian review, 12 April 2003
- Telegraph review, 12 April 2003
- BBC News Online review, 11 April 2003
- Daily Mail review, 11 April 2003
- Daily Mirror review, 11 April 2003
- Evening Standard review, 11 April 2003
- What's on Stage review, 11 April 2003
- London Theatre Guide review,11 April 2003
- British Theatre Guide review, 11 April 2003
- London SE1 review
- Peter Gill Festival, Sheffield, May 2002
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- Festival introductory lecture by Nicholas Wright
- Designing for Peter Gill, interviews with Alison Chitty and Jessica Curtis, March 2002
- The Stage review of Kick for Touch, 13 June 2002
- Independent review, 10 June 2002
- Observer review, 9 June 2002
- Times review, 3 June 2002
- Guardian review, 3 June 2002
- Telegraph review, 3 June 2002
- Sheffield Telegraph interview with Peter Gill, 31 May 2002
- Yorkshire Post interview with Peter Gill, 31 May 2002
- Sheffield Star interview with Clair Wilkie, 29 May 2002
- Guardian interview with Peter Gill, 27 May 2002
- Essay by Michael Grandage on Peter Gill, 26 May2002
- Sheffield Telegraph preview and interview with Peter Gill, 24 May 2002
- Sheffield Telegraph interview with Ruth Gemmell, 24 May 2002
- Metro Yorkshire interview with Peter Gill, 21 May 2002
- Independent preview by Peter Gill, 18 May 2002
- Yorkshire Post interview with Michael Grandage, 17 May 2002
- Sheffield Star interview with Susan Brown, 10 May 2002
- Reviews of Original Sin by Peter
Gill:
- Sunday Times review, 16 June 2002
- Mail on Sunday review, 9 June 2002
- Times review, 8 June 2002
- Telegraph review, 7 June 2002
- Guardian review, 6 June 2002
- The York Realist by Peter Gill, The English Touring Company, November 2001
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- The Stage interview with Peter Gill, 4 April 2002
- Financial Times interview with Peter Gill, 9 March 2002
- Essay by Michael Billington, 6 March 2002
- How to be an assistant director, 13 January 2002
- Independent interview with Peter Gill, 2 January 2002
- Manchester Evening News interview with Anne Reid, 14 November 2001
- This is Lancashire interview with Ian Mercer, 8 November 2001
- Reviews:
- Spectator review, 6 April 2002
- International Herald Tribune review, 3 April 2002
- The Stage review, 21 March 2002
- New York Times review, 7 February 2002
- Times Literary Supplement review, 25 January 2002
- Glasgow Herald review, 18 January 2002
- Time Out review, 16 January 2002
- London Theatre Guide review, 15 January 2002
- Online review London review, 13 January 2002
- Mail on Sunday review, 13 January 2002
- Independent on Sunday review, 13 January 2002
- Sunday Times review, 13 January 2002
- Observer review, 13 January 2002
- Sunday Telegraph review, 13 January 2002
- BBC Arts review, 12 January 2002
- Independent review (London), 10 January 2002
- Financial Times review, 10 January 2002
- Rainbownetwork review, January 2002
- Times review, 10 January 2002
- Daily Telegraph review, 10 January 2002
- Guardian review,9 January 2002
- Evening Standard review, 9 January 2002
- Daily Mail review, 9 January 2002
- Morning Star review, 29 November 2001
- Whatsonstage review, 16 November 2001
- BBC Bristol review, November 2001
- Nowt2do review, November 2001
- BBC Manchester review, 16 November 2001
- Manchester Evening News review, 15 November 2001
- Manchester Evening News interview with Anne Reid, 14 November 2001
- The Look Across The Eyes and Lovely Evening by Peter Gill, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2001
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- Country Life magazine review, 13 December 2001
- Luther, by John Osborne, Royal National Theatre, October 2001
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- dramaturgical links relating to John Osborne's Luther
- Luther's Reformation
- The Holy Roman Emporer and the Diet of Worms
- Beyond the Reformation Century: The "British Archipelago"
- Times interview with Peter Gill, 3 October 2001
- Evening Standard preview, 5 October 2001
- Evening Standard interview with Rufus Sewell, 4 October 2001
- Financial Times interview with Peter Gill, 6 October 2001
- Reviews:
- Times, 8 October 2001
- Guardian, 8 October 2001
- Evening Standard review, 8 October 2001
- Whatsonstage review, 8 October 2001
- Daily Telegraph, 8 October 2001
- Financial Times, 9 October 2001
- Independent, 10 October 2001
- Time Out, 10 October 2001
- What's On in London, 10 October 2001
- The Stage, 11 October 2001
- Sunday Telegraph, 14 October 2001
- Sunday Times, 14 October 2001
- Independent on Sunday, 14 October 2001
- Observer, 14 October 2001
- Spectator, 20 October 2001
- reviews of
- Peter Gill's Sleepers' Den, revived at the Southwark Playhouse directed by Thea Sharrock and designed by Rachel Blues, 26 June - 21 July 2001
- Peter Gill's production of David Mamet's Speed-the-plow
- The production page has links to interviews with Peter Gill, Mark Strong and Kimberly Williams, as well as links to reviews and pictures of the production.
- Peter Gill's new translation of Chekhov's The Seagull
- toured in a Royal Shakespeare Company
production. Reviews:
- new "witty, beautifully judged translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent)
- "Peter Gill's new adaptation brings an ease, freshness and fluency to the text that makes it wholly of our time and draws out an unexpected well of humour" (Pat Ashworth, The Stage)
- "brisk new translation" (Benedict Nightingale, The Times)
- "Peter Gill's uncontrived version is a match for Stoppard's" (Lucy Kellaway, The Observer)
- There is much in Noble's production, as well as Peter Gill's new version, to admire. (Michael Billington, The Guardian)
- "Noble is keenly alert to the mixture of humour and piercing sadness in the script, in an unexceptionable new translation by Peter Gill, and equally good at capturing the subtle rhythms of the play, with its animated social surface, sudden silences and sense of gathering desperation." (Charles Spencer, The Telegraph)
- Friendly Fire by Peter Gill
- Part of the BT National Connections season, summer 1999. One of ten new plays commissioned by the National Theatre Education Department.
- Peter Gill — The Plays
- by John Burgess. Reproduced from the programme of the Almeida production of Peter Gill's Certain Young Men, January 1999
- Theatre: a word from the wise
- by David Benedict. Interview published in The Independent, January 1999. In a similar vein, see also "Where's the pioneer spirit?" in the Guardian, May 1999.
- Reviews of 1999 Almeida production of Certain Young Men
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- Minimalist View of a Gay Scene, Sheridan Morley, International Herald Tribune, 10 February 1999
- Young gay Brits, Paul Levy, Wall Street Journal, February 12, 1999
- Four couples in search of a plot, by Sheridan Morley, The Spectator, February 13, 1999
- long on courage short on drama, by Charles Spencer in the Telegraph Friday 29 January 1999
- "Some Mothers do 'ave 'em" by Susannah Clapp, the Guardian, January 1999.
- "A suffocating air of domesticity" the Guardian, January 1999.
- A response to The New Approach to Investment in Culture from the perspective of the theatre
- by Peter Gill. A response to a Government consultation document on arts funding. Published in The Spectator, September 1998
- Poems
- by Amelia Earhart, Slyvia Plath, and Emily Dickinson from Tongue of a Bird programme.
- Interview with Peter Gill
- by Kate Kellaway, New Statesman, November 1997
Twits in toppers
- Musicals in the subsidised theatre. Peter Gill squares up to the song and dance squad. Originally published in the Guardian, March 1997
- Cardiff East programme notes
- A short history of Cardiff and various fragments of Welsh/English verse and poetry, February 1997.
- There are also on-line reviews of Cardiff East:
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- Welshing on the Past, Benedict Nightingale, The Times Arts, 14 February 1997
- This is the Wales that Dylan Thomas never showed us, Charles Spencer, The Telegraph, 15 February 1997
- John Gross, review, The Telegraph, 22 February 1997
- Piece by Sheridan Morely, International Herald Tribune, 26 February 1997
- Programme notes from A Patriot for Me
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- John Osborne: biographical notes and tribute by David Hare.
- Essay on homosexuals in the armed forces by Angela Mason
- Essay on stage censorship by Irving Wardle
- The Rise and Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Uncle Vanya programme notes:
- Richard Nelson, biography of the author of New England
- The Way of the World programme notes
- June and the Paycock programme notes:
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- Sean O'Casey
- Dublin 1922: A Darlin' City
- A Sanctuary in Irish Devolution
- A History of the Irish Future
- A New State of Chassis: The Irish Civil War and its background
- Programme notes from The Marriage of Figaro
- Mean Tears programme note
- by Christopher Hampton. On Peter Gill's plays. 1987
- Season of new plays
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- Times interview
- Reviews:
- Garden of England
- Times review, November 1985
- Five play bill, November 1985
- As I Lay Dying, October 1985
- The Murderers, September 1985
- Sam Shepard
- Extracts from an interview with Sam Shepard by Stephen Fay, published in The Sunday Times on 28 August 1984.
- Programme notes from Venice Preserv'd by Thomas Otway:
- Ödön von Horváth
- Notes on the writer from the Tales from Hollywood programme, 1983
- George Bernard Shaw and the World of Major Barbara
- by Peter Lewis (from the programme of Peter Gill's 1982 National Theatre production of Major Barbara)
- Danton's Death
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- Revolutionary rhythms, by Irving Wardle, The Times
- Theatre Journal, March 1983, by Robert F. Gross (Cornell University)
- Hugh Rank writes on Georg Büchner and Danton's Death
- Notes on the French Revolution by Shirley Matthews
- French Revolution and classical references
- Much Ado About Nothing programme notes
- Notes from Measure for Measure programme:
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- Shakespeare biography, works
- Shakespeare portraits
- Directors as God
- An interview with Peter Gill at Hammersmith's Riverside Studios: national acclaim but locally there were calls for bingo. By Peter Lennon in the Sunday Times Magazine, November 26 1978.
- Peter Gill
- by Christopher Hampton. From the programme of the July 1976 Royal Court Theatre first performance of Small Change by Peter Gill
- Ivan Sergeyevitch Turgenev
- from the programme of the Peter Gill's 1981 National Theatre production of A Month in the Country
- Julius Caesar
- Essay by Simon Usher
- Clare Poems
- by Edward Bond
- Twelfth Night notes
- from the programme of Peter Gill's 1974 RSC production of Twelfth Night
- Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabler
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- programme notes from Peter Gill's Stratford (Ontario) Festival, 1970
- Times obituary of Irene Worth
- Interview with Michael O'Neill and Jeremy Seabrook, authors of Life Price
- „Wir brauchen einander"
- Extracts from essays by D.H. Lawrence (in German)
- D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930
- Notes on D.H. Lawrence in German
- Royal Court Diary
- Rehearsal logbook by Barry Hanson of three D H Lawrence plays in repretoire at the Royal Court, April 1968
- D.H. Lawrence: Dramatist
- an essay by Keith Sagar, D.H. Lawrence Review, 1968
- Some dialect poems
- by D.H. Lawrence
- Nottingham & the Mining Country
- From an essay of D.H. Lawrence's, 1929
- Mining Terms
- From the programme of Peter Gill's 1967 production of D.H. Lawrence's The Daughter-in-law. Also in German: Bergwörterbuch 1871
- National Coal Strike, 1912
- Background, plus January-April 1912 from The Annual Register.
- Interview with Joe Orton and
- notes on Joe Orton's plays
- from the programme notes of Peter Gill's Royal Court production of The Erpingham Camp and The Ruffian on the Stair (presented together as Crimes of Passion in a season of new plays) June 1967.
- Thomas Otway
- Biography from The Soldier's Fortune programme notes.
- 1649-1685
- Historical context (the Restoration of Charles II) from The Soldier's Fortune programme notes.
- The Sleepers Den and Over Gardens Out
- Publisher's text
- Mermaid Theatre opening