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Abi Morgan

February 2025

  • Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget Jones, with Leo Woodall as Roxster in Mad About the Boy.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – our hapless heroine is sharper, wiser and funnier

    Renée Zellweger’s Bridget faces new challenges in parenting and love, but it’s the familiar faces around her who deliver heart and humour in this unexpectedly poignant fourth outing

January 2025

  • Mathew Baynton as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Mathew Baynton’s Dream, Hadestown and more

    Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical gets a West End spin and the Horrible Histories star’s Bottom are among this month’s highlights

December 2024

  • Man in wooly hat entering a door with gun ready to shoot Utopia, episode two, season two.

    ‘She took it as a personal affront that people didn’t like her!’ What it’s like when your TV show gets canned

    From feelings of grim acceptance to those who felt they’d totally lost their compass, writers open up on what it’s like to have your television series cancelled

May 2024

  • Benedict Cumberbatch as Vincent in Eric.

    ‘It’s been a crazy five years’: Abi Morgan on surviving cancer ... and giving Benedict Cumberbatch his most monstrous role yet

    The screenwriter’s latest drama is about a misanthropic puppeteer whose mind unravels when his son goes missing. She reveals how divorce, breast cancer and teenage trips to New York inspired it

May 2022

  • Abi Morgan photographed at the Park Theatre, London.

    Screenwriter Abi Morgan: ‘I am absolutely the same, but profoundly changed’

    The acclaimed creator of The Split and The Iron Lady has endured three gruelling years of loss and illness. Now she’s written it all up, and it reads like a thriller

April 2022

  • Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan in The Split.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Split; Art That Made Us; House of Maxwell

    Abi Morgan’s sharp legal family drama returns; a journey around Britain’s creative history inspires; and the Maxwell saga is raked over again

February 2020

  • A guilty, gossipy pleasure ... The Split.

    TV review
    The Split series two review – steamy legal saga raises the bar again

    With its flagrant infidelities and families at war, Abi Morgan’s divorce lawyer drama is a tasty, racy treat you’ll want to binge

March 2019

  • A #MeToo march in Hollywood, California.

    Women worldwide must be heard and respected

    Letters: Seventy-six women from the arts, business world, law and politics, including Emma Watson, Keira Knightley and Emma Thompson, call on governments to support and protect women fighting for their rights around the world

May 2018

  • Abi Morgan

    Abi Morgan: 'Everyone knew that Harvey Weinstein was a bully'

  • The Davies-Monk family: Richard, Hayley, Lewis and Spencer

    TV tonight
    Tuesday’s best TV: My F-ing Tourette’s Family; The Split

April 2018

  • Nicola Walker in The Split

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Split; The Woman in White; The Terror; Westworld

    Abi Morgan’s new divorce drama is a delightful family affair, The Terror is tremendous, and Westworld is back on track
  • Meet the family firm … Fiona Button as Rose, Nicola Walker as Hannah, Annabel Scholey as Nina and Anthony Head as Oscar in The Split.

    TV review
    The Split review – Abi Morgan’s shiny lawyers show life in all its wondrous mess

    Nicola Walker stars in this gorgeously slick, witty and thoroughly grown-up tale of high-end divorce lawyers by the Bafta-winning writer
  • Goodbye barristers in wigs … the sisters in The Split, from left, Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey and Fiona Button.

    The Split: Abi Morgan on how she blew the wig off the British legal drama

    They wear sharp suits and power-walk to meetings with scandalous celebrity clients. But the solicitor sisters in this glamorous new divorce drama are not what they seem

February 2018

  • Sinead Cusack and Zawe Ashton in London revival of Splendour

    The Start
    Abi Morgan on the play fuelled by fury - The Start podcast

  • Abi Morgan

    Abi Morgan: ‘Women can be as violent, mercurial and complex as men’

January 2018

  • Tanya Fear, Niall Bishop and Eva-Jane Willis in Tiny Dynamite

    Tiny Dynamite review – flashy return for Abi Morgan's fractured love story

    First staged in 2001, Morgan’s elliptical drama still intrigues – even if this long overdue revival is insufficiently charged

June 2017

  • Brexit shorts - Penelope Wilton

    Brexit shorts: dramas from a divided nation
    Brexit Shorts: The End by Abi Morgan, starring Penelope Wilton – video

    ‘There’s no coming back from this’ … After 43 years together, Helen is shocked that her husband is leaving
  • Penelope Wilton as Helen

    Brexit shorts: dramas from a divided nation
    The End, a new play by Abi Morgan – read the script

    After 43 years of union, Helen’s husband is leaving. She’d always thought they were stronger together but forget regret – it’s payback time
  • Four of the playwrights behind Brexit Shorts, clockwise from top left: Stacey Gregg, Abi Morgan, Meera Syal and Dave Hare

    Brexit shorts: dramas from a divided nation
    Leading playwrights create Brexit dramas for the Guardian

    As the Guardian launches Brexit Shorts, a series of films about the seismic effects of the EU referendum, playwrights David Hare and Abi Morgan assess the UK’s political turmoil

December 2016

  • Bridget Jones / Maggie Thatcher / Germaine Greer

    Shortcuts
    Why the Woman’s Hour power list is as daft as the second Bridget Jones film

    Lists such as this have an impact only if they are divisive and provocative – but did the Radio 4 programme’s panel make the right call?
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