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Joe Penhall’s first play, Wild Turkey, was performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre as part of the 1993 London New Play Festival. Some Voices (1994) won Penhall a Thames Television Bursary and the John Whiting Award in 1995. He has also written Pale Horse (1995), Love and Understanding (1997) and The Bullet (1998). Blue/Orange (2000) won the Evening Standard Best Play of the Year (2000), the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2000) and the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2001). His latest plays are Dumb Show (2004) and Landscape with Weapon, which opened at the National Theatre in April 2007. Penhall has also written the scripts for several films — among others, Enduring Love (2004) and The Long Firm (2004) — and has written and directed The Undertaker screened on BBC2 in 2005. The following interview took place in London on 31 January 2005.
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In A. Sierz, In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today ( London: Faber, 2001 ), p. 210.
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Klein, H. (2007). Joe Penhall. In: Aragay, M., Klein, H., Monforte, E., Zozaya, P. (eds) British Theatre of the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210738_7
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