Five Truths About Marathon Plays

Michael Billington: “Advertise an event that lasts the best part of a day and you will find the box office quickly besieged. Having sat through a couple of epics in the last fortnight – Gatz at the Noel Coward and Druid Murphy at the Hampstead – I not only have a new understanding of the phrase ‘putting in an eight-hour day’ but have come to several conclusions.”