Howard Brenton
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Howard John Brenton (born December 13, 1942 in Portsmouth, England) is an English playwright, who was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He gained notoriety for his play The Romans in Britain, first staged at the National Theatre in 1980. This featured a scene of attempted buggery which resulted in Mary Whitehouse mounting a private prosecution against the play's director, Michael Bogdanov. Whitehouse's prosecution was withdrawn by her own legal team when it became obvious that it would not succeed.
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[edit] Plays
- Christie in Love
- Revenge
- Magnificence
- Brassneck (with David Hare)
- The Churchill Play
- Epsom Downs (1977)
- Sore Throats
- The Romans in Britain (1980)
- Thirteenth Night (1981)
- Weapons of Happiness
- Bloody Poetry (1984)
- Pravda (1985, with David Hare)
- Greenland
- Berlin Bertie
- H.I.D. (Hess is Dead)
- Ugly Rumours
- Snogging Ken
- Paul
- Gum and Goo
- Scott of the Antarctic
- Wesley
- In Extremis
[edit] Screenplays
[edit] Awards
- Evening Standard Award for best play of 1985, for Pravda,
[edit] External links
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