Howard John Brenton (born 13 December 1942) is an English playwright.
He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian (Lewis).
Brenton was educated at Chichester High School For Boys and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
While at Cambridge he wrote a play, Ladder of Fools (1965). His one-act play, It's My Criminal, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre (1966).
In 1968 he joined the Brighton Combinati...
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Howard John Brenton (born 13 December 1942) is an English playwright.
He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian (Lewis).
Brenton was educated at Chichester High School For Boys and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
While at Cambridge he wrote a play, Ladder of Fools (1965). His one-act play, It's My Criminal, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre (1966).
In 1968 he joined the Brighton Combination as a writer and actor, and in 1969 joined Portable Theatre (founded by David Hare and Tony Bicat), for whom he wrote Christie in Love, staged in the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs (1969) and Fruit (1970).
He was also the author of Winter, Daddykins (1966), Revenge for the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs and the triple-bill Heads, Gum & Goo and The Education of Skinny Spew (1969). These were followed by Wesley (1970); Scott of the Antarctic and A Sky-blue Life (1971); Hitler Dances, How Beautiful With Badges, and an adaptation of Measure for...
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