This new play by Francis Warner followed the life of Rembrandt from his arrival in Amsterdam in 1625 until his death some fifty years later. By tracing his friendships with the great figures of the...

‘This is a study in “Weimar as a mode of spiritual life’, as Thomas Mann might have called it: the spirit of the place reflected in a swift series of sparkling encounters, bewildering in its variety,...

‘Francis Warner’s play in celebration of the quincentenary of François I’s birth in 1494 is an act of courage. . . . It opens in 1515, on the king’s return from fighting the Swiss, and takes...

"Warner explores the dramatic tension between worldly rule, the pragmatism of politics, and the vision of the poet as idealist - Warner brings to our attention the perennial conflicts that are as timeless as they are timely. The command of English th

'Francis Warner has shown once more he is a masterful poet and dramatist. Healing Nature, his eleventh play, is his best work to date. The action centres round Pericles, the aristocratic general, commandingly...

In an empty circle, and without props, Francis Warner recreated for the 1978 Observer Oxford Festival of Theatre the world of late adolescence, of boys and girls caught in the process of becoming men and women.

High up on a separate platform, an elderly man calls into being the imaginative world of the play. He descends into his creation, and suffers at the hands of the darkness his own light has shadowed, before coming forward to speak the Epilogue. Meeting Ends is the third play and culmination of Warner’s Requiem trilogy.

Killing Time, the centrepiece of Francis Warner’s Requiem trilogy, is a study of war and of its roots in each one of us. The play was performed at the 1975 Edinburgh Festival, where it won high acclaim.