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Tucked in among my books, I found a publisher's copy of Twelve Hundred Hostages. There was some blurb… In execution, the play might just about stand up as a time-warped addition to the Tales From the Arabian Nights. It echoes…

There was more correspondence with agents in New York, the UK and France about rights and percentages. Until, finally, Nicholas got his version of our translation-from-the-French and began a meticulously detailed revising of his own script – the French version…

Perhaps inevitably, we entered a period you might call the battle for recognition and rights. In all my time in theatre I've only ever been ratted on, or swindled, over rights to a text. Viable plays seem to provoke the…

There is an entry, in the category of counts – of whom there are many – in a schedule of the Hungarian aristocracy as follows: “Wenckheim: Article 73 of 1790/91. Austrian baron: 1776; Austrian count: 1802. The Wenckheims’ hereditary seat…