Ronald Harwood

is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. His films include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Dresser, The Pianist, for which he won an Oscar, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He was awarded a CBE in 1999. Collaboration and Taking Sides, two of Harwood’s plays about musicians and Nazi Germany, are at Chichester Festival Theatre until August 30, 2008.