The return of pioneering playwright Winsome Pinnock: ‘New plays are always a risk’

The celebrated British playwright speaks to Louis Chilton about her new play ‘The Authenticator’, her precarious optimism about original writing, and why she was interested in this country’s ‘untold history’


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