Synopsis
Jane talks to Lynn Nottage, 38th winner of the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn prize for women playwrights.
Woman's Hour | Lynn Nottage
Published in 2001, 'The Secret Life of Bees' was a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks and was made into an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys in 2008. Now the book has been adapted by Lynn Nottage, a playwright and screenwriter, for the stage. It is on at the Almeida Theatre in London and Anita Rani talks to Lynn Nottage, the only woman to have won the Pulitzer prize for drama twice, about her adaptation.
Newsnight | Lynn Nottage
Playwright Lynn Nottage talks to Newsnight about her latest play 'Sweat', Donald Trump and rhetoric in the USA. Lynn Nottage is the only woman to have won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. She talks to Kirsty Wark about her latest play 'Sweat', that articulates the reasons for Donald Trump's presidential victory.