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John Hodge (born 1964) is a Scottish screenwriter and dramatist from Glasgow, who adapted Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title. His first play Collaborators won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
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John Hodge (Glasgow, 1964) è uno sceneggiatore e drammaturgo britannico. Biografia. Noto per le sue collaborazioni con Danny Boyle, Hodge è ...
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The story takes place in Moscow in the years 1938 to 1940 and the drama centers around the apartment of Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife Yelena. Bulgakov has just finished his play The Life of Monsieur de Molière which his friends acclaim a masterpiece. The night after the premiere, he is visited by two secret policemen from the NKVD. They tell him th...
The play is a fictional device to examine the conflict experienced by a writer who is trying to portray a recognizable depiction of the human condition in a tyrannical world which systematically represses such expression. Bulgakov did receive a phone call from Stalin out of the blue at an earlier stage in his career in 1930 in which he was favoured...
The original production received somewhat mixed reviews. Charles Spencer wrote for The Daily Telegraph, "This is a truly tremendous double act which thrills chills and makes you laugh out loud - even though you know you shouldn’t." Michael Billington wrote for The Guardian, "the purpose of Hodge's satirical fantasia is clearly to suggest Bulgakov's...
On 1 December 2011, the original production was broadcast to cinemas around the world as a part of the National Theatre Liveprogramme. In 2016, the play received new productions in New York City and in Washington, D.C.
"On NT production of 'Collaborators'". The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 2016-03-13.Unsigned commentary about the play from the Russian Embassy in London.
6 dic 2011 · John Hodge: from Trainspotting to Bulgakov | Theatre | The Guardian. 'I'm not going to pretend to be the hurt artist' ... screenwriter John Hodge. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian....
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Executive Producer. John Hodge (born 1964) is a Scottish screenwriter and dramatist, who adapted Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title. His first play Collaborators won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
4 mar 2022 · Mark Lawson. Screenwriter John Hodge talks about rebooting the cold war spy drama he was told was irrelevant, reveals how half a line of his Bond script made it into No Time to Die – and...
Its plot follows a group of flatmates in Edinburgh who set off a chain of events after dismembering and burying a mysterious new tenant who died and left behind a large sum of money. The film was written by John Hodge, marking his first screenplay.
