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Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne
English Playwright
Born: Dec 6, 1978
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Related authors: Christopher Fry Edward Bond Francis Beaumont John Osborne John Webster Laurence Housman Noel Coward Peter Shaffer
I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue. Jack Thorne
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I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people. Jack Thorne
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I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition. Jack Thorne
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I think London is a bit sad, and I find it a bit overwhelming. There's a lot of quite unhappy people, and it's very goal-driven. Jack Thorne
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I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts. Jack Thorne
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I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself. Jack Thorne
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The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It's really interesting, what that means. It still confuses me slightly, you know; someone's getting quite brutally bullied on stage and people are laughing. I think it's very hard being young. Jack Thorne
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At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it. Jack Thorne
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Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man. Jack Thorne
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I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write. Jack Thorne
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It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me. Jack Thorne
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I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation. Jack Thorne
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I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation. Jack Thorne
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I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire. Jack Thorne
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