Ode to a Twitter spat: Simon Armitage and John Tiffany’s bird play
The Owl and the Nightingale may have been written 800 years ago, but its anonymous author shows that human nature nearly never changes: two rivals’ joust in the tree tops using words as lances to try to wound the other.
However, proving the exception to the rule, two men from the West Yorkshire village of Marsden – poet laureate Simon Armitage and his lifelong friend, the theatre director John Tiffany – are collaborating on a performance of
