Left side of the road

From: The Scotsman | Date: February 13, 2002| Author: Mark Brown | Copyright information

Maybe it has something to do with his working class Newcastle roots, but Lee Hall isn't interested in maintaining the customary distance between interviewer and interviewee. When I ask to meet him to discuss his production of Dutch playwright Herman Heijermans's play The Good Hope, he immediately invites me for lunch in the smart, yet characteristically modest, north London home he calls his "Billy Elliot winnings".

Extremely personable and charmingly open about his socialist beliefs,...

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