Buzz Buzz!

Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteenyears with leading directors, actors and writers at the NationalTheatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent. In these illuminating interviews playwrights such as Michael Frayn,Kwame Kwei-Armah, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, David Hare, Pam Gems and TonyKushner and many others talk about the roots of their work, theirmethods of research, and how they collaborate with their directors,while actors from Fiona Shaw to Kenneth Branagh, and directors fromPeter Hall to Marianne Elliott, contribute fascinating insights intotheir ideas and ways of working. The book covers plays by the Greeksand Shakespeare, English and European classics, and the best of modernEnglish, Irish and American drama. Theatre writer and commentator Jonathan Croall draws on the vastwealth of interviews he's conducted at the National Theatre in thisfascinating and wide-ranging book.