The playwright and director, who has died aged 86, completed DH Lawrence’s revolution in spotlighting stories of working peoplePeter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honestyI was, in Michael Coveney’s parlance, one of Peter Gill’s acolytes. I knew him in his autumn; after he’d directed his last play for the National, after he’d moved from Harriet Devine’s house in Hammersmith, where he lived…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PM on August 5, 2026