Artist and Tutti Frutti writer John Byrne dies, aged 83
The 83-year-old was an acclaimed designer and painter and found his widest audience writing for TV.
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The 83-year-old was an acclaimed designer and painter and found his widest audience writing for TV.
John Byrne, who has died aged 83, was an astonishingly creative person, as brilliant a playwright as he was an artist; The Slab Boys Trilogy is a cast-iron classic of Scottish theatre while his television dramas (including Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin’ Heart), as well as theatre designs and paintings (he was a superb portraitist) all showed a phenomenal artistic sensibility and drive.
Playwright and artist who wrote the BBC series Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin’ Heart, and plays including The Slab Boys
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