Summary
The Play's the Thing, Channel 4
I'VE tried telling them, these first-time playwrights. As personal experience has taught me, they'll have to contend with stupendously crap money, patronising power-loving directors, faddy designs, prima-donna actors, transparently biddable arts quangos and - even worse - the shocking realisation that, under intense pressure, they will morph into the worst monsters of all. But they won't listen. Not only do they continue churning out their efforts, they've all entered them for The Play's the Thing, Channel 4s new genteel version of X Factor for writers. The prize for the winner is a guaranteed West End run.See the full content of this document
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