How long does it take to write a play? If you ask Peter Arnott you might be surprised by the answer. He has been working on Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape since the late 1980s.
More accurately, he has been living with the characters in his head all that time. Only now has he had found the right vehicle for them.
“The play is a red-hot response to the fall of the Berlin Wall,” laughs the playwright, who has more than 50 plays to his name, most of them written while this one was in gestation. “When I began thinking about the characters, it was about what happens to left-wing intellectual types in Britain when communism is coming to an end in Europe. They’ve kept their past, so they’ve become extraordinarily well rounded. I know exactly what’s happened to these people for the last 50 years.” [READ MORE]