What former teacher's play premiered in 1985 at the Phoenix Theatre?
Alan Bleasdale Alan Bleasdale (born 23 March 1946) is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels.
Jean-Claude van Itallie Jean-Claude van Itallie, the Belgian-born American playwright, performer, and theatre workshop teacher may be best-known for his 1966 anti Viet Nam war play "America Hurrah", "The Serpent", the ensemble play he wrote with Joseph Chaikin’s The Open Theatre his play of "Tibetan Book of the Dead", and his translations of Chekhov’s major plays.