Neil Norman is a British

United Kingdom

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 playwright

Playwright

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 and critic

Critic

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. A journalist on the New Musical Express in the early 1970s, Norman became a film critic for The Face and in the ensuing years a reviewer of film and theatre for various cinema magazines and national newspapers. He joined the Evening Standard

Evening Standard

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 in 1986 as a film critic and feature writer. He is the author of Insignificance and the Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane

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biography Looking For Robbie, and his plays have been performed in London, Toronto and New York.