The journalist turned playwright and screenwriter Keith Dewhurst, who has died aged 93, was part of an extraordinary informal ensemble of actors, designers and musicians who collaborated for more than a decade with the inspirational director Bill Bryden.
Members of this group worked first with Bryden in the Royal Court’s Theatre Upstairs in 1970, and later at the National Theatre when Bryden was invited by Peter Hall to let rip on plays by Eugene O’Neill and David Mamet, as well as on two promenade performances in the NT’s Cottesloe (now the Dorfman) theatre, scripted by Dewhurst and the poet Tony Harrison.
