Poster advertising Collected Stories by Donald Margulies directed by Howard Davies, Haymarket Theatre 15 November 1999 until 5 February 2000.

Poster featuring a colour photograph of Helen Mirren and Anne-Marie Duff in Collected Stories. The name 'Theatre Royal Haymarket' appears in white lettering against a black background and the names of the author, director and production team are noted in white against the background of the photograph. The title' Collected Stories' appears in cream lettering against the background of the photograph.

Given by Dewynters PLC

Collected Stories was a new play by Donald Margulies, directed by Howard Davies, designed by John Gunter with lighting by Peter Mumford and sound by John A Leonard. It was advertised as 'a provocative play' in which 'respected short-story writer Ruth Steiner becomes the mentor to budding fiction writer Lisa Morrison. Ruth eventually welcomes the awe-struck student, revealing secrets of the craft and intimate details of her painful past including a shattering affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. But Lisa's emergence as a successful novelist, cannibalising Ruth's own experiences for her subject matter, takes an appalling toll on the artist, as Lisa evolves from protege to friend to peer and ultimately to threatening rival.

The production starred the film, stage and television actress Helen Mirren as Ruth 'who was last seen on the London stage in the Royal National Theatre's production of Antony and Cleopatra, she is perhaps best known for her starring role in television's Prime Suspect for which she has received no less than four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress.' Anne-Marie Duff played Lisa.

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