Howard Brenton on 'Doctor Scroggy's War' and an arena of opportunity

For a playwright, Shakespeare's Globe is the most experimental theatre in the country and not at all the dead, heritage, "merrie England" theme park which the more snooty members of the British theatrical establishment thought it would be. Writing for it concentrates the mind wonderfully; it puts, if not the fear of God, certainly the fear of Will into you. I have sometimes sensed an angry bald ghost in the upper gal…

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