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My Summer Reading: Playwright Alfred Uhry
My Summer Reading: Playwright Alfred Uhry
Acclaimed US dramatist selects his current page turners
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Alfred Uhry, playwright, screenwriter and trophy-bearer
Alfred Uhry, now 74, may boast the greatest ratio of accolades to output of just about any American playwright, having copped two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize across merely a handful of works and an Academy Award for the film version of his best-known play, Driving Miss Daisy; the movie itself won the Best Picture Oscar in 1989 and a further trophy for its beloved star, Jessica Tandy. This autumn, the era-spanning comedy-drama arrives back on the West End in the same starry version, headlined by Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones, seen last year on Broadway. Immediately before that begins, the Uhry/Jason Robert Brown musical Parade - first seen locally four years ago at the Donmar - will have ended a revival of its own at the Southwark Playhouse. Call Uhry clearly the man for this London theatre season.
Alfred Uhry, now 74, may boast the greatest ratio of accolades to output of just about any American playwright, having copped two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize across merely a handful of works and an Academy Award for the film version of his best-known play, Driving Miss Daisy; the movie itself won the Best Picture Oscar in 1989 and a further trophy for its beloved star, Jessica Tandy. This autumn, the era-spanning comedy-drama arrives back on the West End in the same starry version, headlined by Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones, seen last year on Broadway. Immediately before that begins, the Uhry/Jason Robert Brown musical Parade - first seen locally four years ago at the Donmar - will have ended a revival of its own at the Southwark Playhouse. Call Uhry clearly the man for this London theatre season.
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