The writer's political play This House has just transferred to Writing in The Telegraph, Dominic Cavendish said This House is "the most intelligent, entertaining and informative political drama of this decade". A stunning cast and precise sense of place elevate this BBC series set in a Nottinghamshire village haunted by the 1980s miners strike. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. When communities are divided, the pain endures, We Begin Again: a musical for 2020 video, British theatre has a class problem, and coronavirus could make it worse, A letter to my post-lockdown self: Keep listening to the birds, 30 years of televised parliament: how Westminster became mainstream entertainment, Cracked actor: stage stars review Boris Johnson's debut as PM, Understanding Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnsons chief strategist. On the Conservative side, Bernard Jack Weatherill kindly offered to withhold his vote, thereby removing the need for Broughtons attendance. where Chanda's Performance was described as a 'revelation[12]' and 'superb' [13], Chanda began appearing in small guest roles in Holby City, and in Mr. Turner by Mike Leigh. L ast May, the playwright James Graham found himself in the unfamiliar environs of Question Time. Why was he falsely accused of an attack on a scab, and who then made this charge disappear? "I think [Brexit] is going to be the main occupying idea in all writers' heads for the next five or 10 years. Were having lunch in a busy restaurant near the Young Vic, where Graham is busy rewriting the script during rehearsals. Our Purpose helping business create a more prosperous society. He beams, and issues a rallying cry. "Whoever would have thought that the intricacies of a minority government struggling to pass a series of bills would have been so engrossing? 4 years ago. Award-winning Playwright-in-Residence James Graham reunites with former Finborough Theatre Associate Director Kate Wasserberg to present a blackly comic and uniquely interactive storytelling event a different actor, telling a story in a different order, selected at random, every single night. Ive really missed it., Vidal is played by Charles Edwards of Downton Abbey and The Crown (for which Graham wrote a standout episode about Prince Charles) and Buckley, counterintuitively, by Homelands David Harewood. It took me about two months to get through the first 20 minutes of the play. Finally something clicked. Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation. We dont talk about class enough. But what makes it special is the portrait at its heart of one small place and all the people in it. In 2019 Graham wrote and executive produced a three-part TV adaptation of his stage play Quiz which aired in 2020. In June 2018, Graham was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. In January 2019, Graham's life and work was the subject of an in-depth BBC One documentary as part of the Imagine series. ", She added: "Both a treat and a triumph, this is a superlative night out in the West End.". I went to bed completely obsessed with them Graham, whose new play Best of Enemies tackles the debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr. Playwright James Graham: Was I too easy on Dominic Cummings? In the background, however, there is his history. ", Pearl Chanda: Age, Wiki, Photos, Biography | FilmiFeed, https://wikitia.com/index.php?title=Pearl_Chanda&oldid=58422, Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Now, after Barnard Castle and all that, does he worry that he wasnt hard enough? A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. Graham and his wife are the brand ambassador of "Affinity Diamonds" and the company shared a beautiful picture of the couple on their official Facebook Page. James Graham got married to his long-term partner, Taryn Burgess in a private ceremony. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter, Harlow Makenna Graham in January 2016. Sketching is obviously a very lovely idea, wherein playwright James Graham has attempted to parlay some of his enormous recent success it wasnt so long ago that he had two plays open next door to each other on the West End into a leg up to playwrights at the start of their career. Sketching is obviously a very lovely idea, wherein Other recent The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. As an actual night of entertainment its solid. The draft he sent me five days ago is already out of date and the final version will be something else again. [9] I love Kevin Doyle as a retired miner (and former scab) who struggles to breathe; special plaudits, too, to Adeel Akhtar, as a lonely train driver. Her mother was a teacher, and her father an Artist. The very valid question was: should he have been comfortable watching it? he says. As he explains in a soft Nottingham drawl: I was nervous that people would come in and say: 'I remember that, I lived through that, these are the things that interest me about that story and youve not focused on them., Im aware that This House doesnt dwell on the parties policies, he continues, and I thought that might be something people found to be a wasted opportunity. There is a rightness here that I find moving. His work has been staged throughout the UK and internationally, at theatres including the Bush, Soho Theatre, Clwyd A boyish 39, Graham has enough contagious excitement to make anyone consider jacking in their job and joining a theatre company. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. And he doesnt care how unfashionable that makes him: I must be the only playwright fascinated by Edward Heath, he jokes. Less obvious is how effective this particular format is going to be.Inspired by Charles Dickenss exuberant Boz, Sketching weaves together a number of lively London-set playlets from nine writers. The police are treated with suspicion. All that accepted, it has a terrifically versatile cast of five, with particularly strong comic chops from Sophie Wu and Samuel James. The play grew out of the 2009 Radio 4 Afternoon Drama How Are You Feeling, Alf? Thats why its fascinating to spend time in the heads of Vidal and Buckley. The moment political debate became a wrestling match Buckley and Vidal in 1968. SherwoodBBC One, 13 June, 9pm; now on catch-up, This article appears in the 15 Jun 2022 issue of the New Statesman, The Big Slow Down. Well-researched and yet keenly imagined, rife with eye-opening titbits about behind-the-scenes battles, This House would have impressed us from a playwright as mature as David Hare. Enemies, traitors, saboteurs: how can we face the future with this anger in our politics? Twitter is an outrage machine and theatre is an empathy factory.. Ive long since stopped worrying about what a young writer should be writing about. Plus its not every day you get to see new work by the guy who did This House in an East End music hall. James Graham OBE FRSL (born 8 July 1982) is a British playwright and screenwriter. Playwright James Graham has revealed he is writing a TV drama about the EU referendum campaign. I believe in the power of government and of progress. This was the Nottinghamshire mining village of Annesley, where the miners strike led to a kind of civil war. WebPlaywright and Screenwriter. But Graham confirmed that his TV drama will "specifically tackle what happened" in the run-up to the EU referendum on 23 June. As an endeavour its noble. Hes that rare beast: a political playwright who doesnt tell you where to stand. This wouldnt be particularly noteworthy were it not for the fact that, aged 30, he has written the most absorbing account of the crisis-ridden period from 1974 to 1979 ever to have hit the London stage. And in attempting to make the stories relate to each other and so being somewhat subservient to Grahams linking plots theres a bit of a sense that were not necessarily seeing the writers really let rip. Im not naturally good at broadcast media. His screen work Sherwood takes the social divides of Brexit and finds an equivalent in a town torn apart by the legacy of the miners strike. He laughs. "The whole ensemble contributes to a thrilling play that both relives history and transcends it.". James Graham - Playwright. [See also: My Name is Leon: a horribly preachy drama]. Ashfield-born playwright James Graham reveals hometown inspiration behind forthcoming BBC TV drama Sherwood For the past couple of years I have been writing and producing a new television drama set in Ashfield where I grew up, and inspired by tragic events that took place here, writes playwright James Graham. It felt as if I put my head down and charged along a corridor, not looking back once. He finished the first draft a week later. (2014 to 2015 season) He wrote the book for the musical, "Finding Neverland," at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its a funny old portrait of twenty-first century London:a bit Richard Curtis-y, with little real sense of the capitals cultural diversity bar a dodgy Asian shop owner and a refugee we see only in flashbacks. Other recent television work includes Channel 4 and HBO's Brexit: An Uncivil War, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, dramatising the European referendum campaign. As an endeavour its noble. If its plotting is intricate and imaginative, pretty much everything else about it seems to be born of experience. I go back and forth all the time. "We haven't really changed much of it, James has kept the same script," he told the BBC. Its universality the holy grail of any decent writer lies in its very detail. Its either Moneyball or Cool Runnings: the underdogs who change the world. WebLily Williams +44 (0)20 7393 4452 Email Lily Williams James Graham Playwright and writer for film and television James Graham is a playwright and screenwriter. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. But just how did he become one of Britain's most If he hates black people, I need to own that thought in my head., Buckley was guilty of homophobia as well as racism. But who killed him? His dramas include The Coalition, Ink, and Sherwood, Written by James Graham and produced by the Guardian in partnership with the National Theatre, this short musical film takes stock of an extraordinary year and resets for the one ahead, Boris favoured pixie dust rather than trust, and barefaced lies rather than resignation with honour, says the playwright and TV writer James Graham, Tensions from miners strike are echoed in Brexit, levelling up and todays rail disputes. 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Best of Enemies is at the Young Vic, London, 3 December-22 January. Nottingham famously broke away from the NUM during the miners strike to form their own union. One thing led to another. He pulled me up and said, You cant temper the more unattractive aspects of his politics because Im playing him. If Sketching isnt golden Graham, his class does shine through, particularly with the enjoyably and unexpectedly tart ending. His Labour counterpart, Walter Harrison, was so impressed by the gesture that he refused that offer. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Graham (playwright), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. He also just loves the process of collaboration. He shrugs off the bumper ratings of Quiz (Everyone was bored and stuck at home) and frequently frets about sounding wanky. You just have to not care about embarrassing yourself., It helps that he is so self-effacing. Drama, Fairy Tale/Fantasy, Historical/Biographical, Childrens Theatre Company 2023 2024 Season. His forthcoming BBC drama Sherwood explores how a double murder years later reopened old wounds. The series is set no prizes for guessing in a village in Nottinghamshire, the county where, 30 years ago, many men continued to work during the long and painful miners strike, a decision that was personally agonising and often quite dangerous: the buses in which they travelled to the pits were attacked; those who crossed picket lines were scabs, and never to be forgiven (Arthur Scargill, the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, whose power base was further north in Yorkshire, said this explicitly). (Though I was sad not to see Adam Hughess play Petras Polski Sklep). Our weekly culture newsletter from books and art to pop culture and memes sent every Friday. James Graham is a British playwright and television writer. All rights reserved. We already have this email. Playwright James Graham has revealed he is writing a TV drama about the EU referendum campaign. Over the Is this the secret of his staying power? In January 2019, Graham's life and work was the subject of an in-depth BBC One do*entary as part of the Imagine series. He has written powerful dramas about the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Dominic Cummings. His other credits include musical Finding Neverland - for which Graham wrote the script and Gary Barlow the music and lyrics - and Privacy, which made its debut on Broadway earlier this year starring Daniel Radcliffe. Its inert, dramatically and politically. Its still alive as a prospect, he says. I hope thats a generous instinct and not a self-preservation instinct. The Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr accused Graham of portraying Cummings (not then a public figure) as a Sherlockian maverick. 2023 BBC. Like everyone else, Ive been preoccupied with how we talk to one another on our new platforms and how unhealthy and dangerous that sometimes feels. Bertie Carvel as Rupert Murdoch in Ink. It was chosen by popular vote as the best play of the last decade. "When we first did it, the audience's obsession was much more about the coalition government in 2010 and how that was working out, and now it's much more about what's happening in the Labour Party.". Were in a really bad place., Physically, at least, the two of us are in a very nice place. For sure, he says, without going into too much detail. And in attempting to make the stories relate to each other and so being somewhat subservient to Grahams linking plots theres a bit of a sense that were not necessarily seeing the writers really let rip.That said Sketching is not without its moments, and as a rule the storylines be it Grahams Peter Piper Has a Plan, about a career criminal plotting an inscrutable heist, or Himanshu Ojhas The Hand of Hozan, about a sewage worker who wanders into a police station with a dismembered hand fizz with promise and knowing London references, even if some struggle to hold onto the momentum. Support 100 years of independent journalism. He hadnt planned to become a spokesperson for theatre during the pandemic, but he happened to be promoting the ITV version of Quiz, his hit 2017 play, just as the sector was screaming for a bailout, and he used his platform wisely. WebOlivier Award-winning playwright James Graham forges a uniquely crowd-sourced play, incorporating scenes by emerging writers into his own sweeping narrative. Wikipedia article James Graham (playwright). Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. This man, once a striker, had long seemed like an anachronism even down at the Miners Welfare Club. In the penultimate debate, Vidal called him a crypto-Nazi and Buckley notoriously turned feral, calling Vidal you queer and threatening to sock you in your goddamn face. Ashfield-born playwright James Graham reveals hometown inspiration behind forthcoming BBC TV drama Sherwood. Coming from a young upstart like Graham, its almost a coup dtat. Dj vu! A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! That book is already a metaphor so you dont need to shrink it by saying, Is Big Brother Facebook?, His output may seem eclectic but to Graham theres a common thread: Great stories from our recent past that are useful vessels for exploring anxieties and tensions that were all dealing with today. The process of writing the first draft was the hardest Ive ever experienced. James Graham is a British writer, known for his work on stage and television. Award-winning playwright and dramatist, James Graham, will be drawing on his experiences of growing up in post-industrial Nottinghamshire for his latest To this day people cross the street because of a political choice they were forced to make 40 years ago., In hits such as Quiz, Ink and 2019s Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, Graham harnesses the exhilaration of seeing underestimated outsiders pull off a gamechanging upset to even make you root, at least emotionally, for Rupert Murdochs Sun or Dominic Cummings Vote Leave before he pulls the rug and exposes the grim ramifications. WebJames Graham is a playwright and screenwriter. which explored the remarkable demise of the Callaghan government in the no-confidence vote of March 1979. Though he studied drama at Hull, he raves about history: I stole from Shakespeare the idea that you can examine whats happening today by looking at events from the recent past. WebPlaywright and screenwriter James Graham explores the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland with IWM curator Craig Murrayand conflict eyewitness Jo Taylor. It was about the people and something more timeless I wanted to look at the strange, ridiculous brilliance of the system in that building, either side of the lobby.. I heard the Question Time music and my brain emptied of every single thing Id ever thought, he says with a comical shudder. Chanda was born and grew up in South London. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. morning, Available for everyone, funded by readers. So in the plays flashback to Buckleys 1965 Cambridge Union debate with James Baldwin, both actors are black. These have included American Graham's debut feature film X+Y premiered in 2015, and he has written numerous TV dramas, including the TV films Coalition (which won the Royal Television Society award for Best Single Film) and Brexit: The Uncivil War (nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie). This article "Pearl Chanda" is from Wikipedia. Like Wainwright, Graham takes his time, carefully establishing both the relationships between his characters and the long backstory that may be crucial to the action. Its a funny old portrait of twenty-first century London:a bit Richard Curtis-y, with little real sense of the capitals cultural diversity bar a dodgy Asian shop owner and a refugee we see only in flashbacks. All I can say is that there was a deliberate intention to make people like him, or people who read his newspapers, feel like they could get a defence, but then they have to sit there and listen to the prosecution., Far more controversial was Benedict Cumberbatchs rendering of Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War. I think that as young writers we have to take responsibility for our own history! Unlike many politicians today, when it comes to the vision thing, James Graham has got it licked. My Name is Leon: a horribly preachy drama, The Coldest Case in Laramie: yet another bleak true crime podcast, From Sophie Mackintosh to Stephen Moss: new books reviewed in short, The Victorians in The Essex Serpent are as far-fetched as the sea-monster, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. Yes, on the evidence of what Ive seen so far, its that good. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. The rest, as they say, is Thatcherite history. Past tragedy and farce, from the minority government of 1974 to the horse-trading of 2010, prove that ruthless mastery of the narrative is crucial, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every Next up: a fiery white rightwinger, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. MGCfutures Plus. Burn, a new play by James Graham read the script, A hung parliament? Graham has written a crime drama, and its gripping in all the usual ways. Grudges are held as tightly as pint glasses. James Grahams deftness at dramatising post-war politics has earned him a smash hit with This House at the National, says Dominic Cavendish . Sometimes I think I was too hard, but not very often. Cummings gung-ho contempt for journalists, MPs and judges while he was at No 10 did make Graham think twice. In Sherwood, I recognise everything. I wouldnt say my background was Left or Right but a dialogue between the two, and maybe thats why I can tell a story like this without feeling like I have an axe to grind politically., Will there be more of this type? Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. By James Graham That said Sketching is not without its moments, and as a rule the storylines be it Grahams Peter Piper Has a Plan, about a career criminal plotting an inscrutable heist, or Himanshu Ojhas The Hand of Hozan, about a sewage worker who wanders into a police station with a dismembered hand fizz with promise and knowing London references, even if some struggle to hold onto the momentum. The most generous view of Buckley is were all capable of being the very worst version of ourselves at the very worst moment. In 2022, it was announced that Graham had written the book for a new musical about the life of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner, with Elton John and Jake Shears writing the music. James Graham is a multi award-winning playwright and screenwriter. This House was revived in 2016 and ran for two years, first in the West End and then on a national tour. I went to bed completely obsessed with it, says Graham. I go back and forth, ast May, the playwright James Graham found himself in the unfamiliar environs of Question Time. I wish Id needled that a little more the consequences of that contrary approach to politics., Still, he refuses to villainise easy targets because that would mean preaching to the choir. [14], She won the Best Actor award at the London Independent Film Festival for her work on The Final Haunting.[15]. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2020 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Drama and Young People in British Theatre in Greater London SE11, England. www.wiltons.org.uk/web/whatson/471-james-graham-s-sketching. Its a story that should be relevant at any point because its about how our democracy works., Although he spoke to a number of figures, including Harrison, who died days after the play opened, Graham resisted the temptation to go interview-crazy: There were hundreds of people I could have met who would have given us amazing stories, but in the end I had to remember that I didnt want to learn everything about the IMF crisis or the oil crisis. This House deals with the struggles of the Labour government between 1974 and 1979. Shocking enough in 1968, it seems unforgivable now. By Grahams telling, in the decades since, memories have faded only a little. By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. The writer's political play This House has just transferred to London's West End, four years after it premiered at The National Theatre. On his 10-year anniversary as Conservative leader, Cameron still escapes definition. London, in all its nefariousness, might as well be Rome, or Kuala Lumpur. This House, a sell-out smash at the Nationals Cottesloe theatre about to transfer to the Olivier in the new year, disproves the adage that you should write about what you know. Barrie (based on the movie of the same name). I like missions, and the unintended consequences of those missions., Buckley and Vidal are no longer around to pass comment but Murdoch saw Ink twice, which led to mutterings that Graham had a little too much sympathy for the devil. James' play This House premiered at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in September 2012 and transferred to the bigger Olivier in 2013 and then a West End revival in 2016. Its not just doing it because you think you should but because of all the stories youll miss if you dont. Graham grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and was educated at Ashfield Comprehensive School and the University of Hull, where he studied drama. Some of Wikitia's pages are sourced from Wikipedia.org's Mainspace and Draftspace. It garnered critical acclaim and a huge amount of admiration from current and former MPs for his rendition of life in the House of Commons. I was fascinated by how on earth it could get to the point where one mans physical presence in the lobby could save or destroy a government., The onset of the Coalition in 2010 gave him the spur to pitch the idea, but he insists hed have ploughed on even if the Conservatives had won. I take a huge block of ice into a rehearsal room and then we start chipping away at it, he says. Theres no exchange of ideas, no listening, no empathy. His best-known work is Finding Neverland, the musical about playwright J.M. In 2017 she appeared in Endeavour (TV series) as Bettina Pettybon, with Sylvestra Le Touzel, and in the BBC comedy Motherland (TV series). Superstar playwright James Graham joins forces with a host of unknown writers for this erratic night of London stories. WebIn 2017 Pearl Chanda originated the Role of Stephanie Marrian, the first Page 3 Girl, in James Graham (playwright) play Ink with was directed by Rupert Goold for the Almeida Theatre before transferring to the Duke of York's Theatre. I knew I had the end of the story, Graham recalls. James Graham is a playwright and screenwriter. Chanda's debut performance was playing Nina in The Seagull for Headlong (theatre company), alongside Abigail Cruttenden in 2013[2]. WebBritish playwright and television writer James Graham OBE FRSL (born 8 July 1982) is a British playwright and screenwriter. It debuted at the National Theatre in 2012, and recently had a run at the Chichester Theatre before transferring to the West End. Conflict of Interest is kindly supported by The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust. His 2012 breakthrough This House dramatised the scheming of the whips offices during the 1974-79 Labour government with such even-handedness that the audience included a cross-bench alliance of politicians. Articles taken from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be accessed on Wikipedia's Draft Namespace. How can a modern audience still sympathise with him? Having made his mark swiftly since moving to London in 2005, Graham clearly possesses a prolific talent, but despite the lure of TV and film hes now adapting the best-selling memoir Gypsy Boy for BBC Films its the niche he has carved out for himself that animates him. Continue with Recommended Cookies. 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