As for his scene - stealing turn as Nottingham opposite Kevin Costner in the 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he revealed how the late, great playwright Peter Barnes helped him with home lines scribbled over in Leicester Square's Pizza Express. (deadline.com)
I'm working at this moment with Lucinda Clarkson who is a really great playwright from the UK. (themissingreel.com)
The same date is also the birthday of the country's greatest playwright, a certain William Shakespeare, yet this will not be celebrated either, although Burns Night and to a lesser extent St Davids Day were both marked. (totalpolitics.com)