Overall, I had a busy 2020. Despite having no shows on (two productions of Belfast Girls and a production of the female version of Leopoldville were all cancelled this year), breaking the pattern for the past five years of at least two play productions a year , I wrote fairly consistently and read every day. Once again however, as with last year, my reading of contemporary works mostly consisted of books I was asked to review - otherwise I read either classics or not-so-recent contemporary fiction. This is not as a snub to the plethora of brilliant new novels and novelists out there but simply because I have a very long catch-up list and I just happen to be a slow (though careful) reader. I also watched a lot of TV drama and far fewer films than I usually do (mainly due to Covid restrictions impacting the film industry and cinemas). I also reread The Theatre and its Double by Antonin Artaud and the plays of Sarah Kane. I wrote about this for Samuel French during the year ...
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