The Tony Award-winning writer Bob Martin shares his thoughts on the creative process, the Netflix-effect and why he’s not tired of writing about show business just yet
in Vancouver from July 6 to Aug. 25, it seemed like a good time to check back in Martin - who’s also revered in the theatre world as co-creator of the classic Stratford-inspired TV seriesopened on Broadway in 2018 - and just two years later Ryan Murphy had made a movie of it starring the likes of Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman .
Two of your three Broadway shows have had show-within-show elements - and now you’re working on the Broadway-aimed musical adaptation of the cult TV showNot yet! I find the creative process endlessly fascinating. And I love that mixture of enormous ego and incredible insecurity that is so common among actors. Plus, it’s a bit of a “write what you know” situation.
Mark, Susan and I have been working of a “kind of” prequel for years, really a fictionalized account of the origin of the Stratford Festival. We like it - time will tell if anyone else does! What I really want to do is putLastly, do you have anything in the works on this side of the border coming up?
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