#5 Jack Thorne

#5 Jack Thorne

Author: Hear Me Out: Discussions about Great Theatre and Greater Plays October 24, 2022 Duration: 32:44

Olivier, Tony and BAFTA Award winning playwright Jack Thorne talks about Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and his favourite Willie Loman speech towards the end of the play. They cover favourite theatre spaces in London and what makes an unfinished speech so clever. Jack explains why he thinks Death of a Salesman is one of the best plays ever written and discusses his own writing process.

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