Mark Ravenhill

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• The ethics of arts sponsorship

  9 Oct 2014: Letters: If any boards (and artistic directors) of arts organisations are not discussing their own ethics seriously, they cannot cite lack of material

• Edinburgh festival 2014 review: Show 6 – Mark Ravenhill's Oedipal tale lacks complexity

  

  6 Aug 2014:

  This vigorous but sketchy play asks what you do if you discover you're not who you thought you were, writes Lyn Gardner

• Shakespeare: Our Contemporary? – streamed event

  Interactive, 30 Jan 2014:

  Streamed event: AS Byatt, Howard Jacobson and Mark Ravenhill celebrated 450 years since Shakespeare's birth, reflected on his legacy and examined what his work means to novelists, poets and playwrights of today

• Gay theatre: coming out or going back?

  24 Oct 2013:

  Gay writing is at a crossroads, says Thomas Hescott – we've yet to produce a voice to match those who came before

• Candide – review

  

  6 Sep 2013:

  Mark Ravenhill's take on Voltaire's satire is an extraordinary piece, despite its overwhelming profusion of ideas, writes Michael Billington

• Candide and the best of all possible tweets

  4 Sep 2013:

  When Mark Ravenhill decided to write a response to Voltaire's classic satire Candide, he turned to social media for help. He explains why the rampant optimism he found there scares him

• Mark Ravenhill's home truths about funding at the Edinburgh festival

  4 Aug 2013:

  Lyn Gardner: Far from celebrating a world without subsidy, the playwright was reminding us that artists need to make their own future rather than looking to the past

• Mark Ravenhill's Edinburgh festival speech: 'We need to have a plan B'

  3 Aug 2013:

  The full text of playwright Mark Ravenhill's speech about politics, austerity, creativity – and speculating what might happen in a world without public funding

• 2013 theatre preview: Helen Mirren gets another crack at the Queen and Peter Pan meets Alice in Wonderland

  30 Dec 2012: It looks set to be an intriguing year on stage that will also see Philip Pullman take on Cinderella and the RSC tackle Voltaire

• Benjamin Britten inspires new work ahead of centenary celebrations

  23 Nov 2012: Music and arts festival set up by the composer will host operas and plays by Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell among others

• Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi play gay couple in Vicious ITV comedy

  5 Nov 2012:

  Family Guy and Will & Grace writer Gary Janetti's sitcom will feature actors playing a book-reading, bickering couple

• NI Opera Shorts – review

  8 Jul 2012: Five snapshots of life on the edge and one stunning new venue provide plenty to cheer in Belfast, writes Fiona Maddocks

• Wooster Group makes rare return to London with unlikely RSC collaboration

  29 May 2012: The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced an additional run of its co-production of Troilus and Cressida at the Riverside

• Biggest ever Shakespeare festival launched on anniversary of his birth

  23 Apr 2012: Playwright Mark Ravenhill publishes sonnet for launch of festival, which will see each play performed in a different language

• Avant garde theatre: has Britain lost its nerve?

  26 Feb 2012: The West End's endless diet of tried and trusted theatrical fare comes at the expense of experimental plays, say critics and playwrights. But in the 21st century is it still desirable – or possible – to shock?

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