Frank Keating had a piece in yesterday’s Guardian selecting a cricket team composed entirely of playwrights. The whole article is worth reading, but the team comes out as: Peter Gibbs Tom Stoppard Harold Pinter Samuel Beckett Simon Gray David Hare Ronald Harwood Michael Simkins Peter Tinniswood Jack Rosenthal Dennis Potter Tom Stoppard will keep wicket, but no captain is named

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Frank Keating’s Playwrights XI

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