"As writers we have a responsibility, sometimes, to make the future seem real.” John Ironmonger
January 2026
Leo Butler: All of life's dramas

Leo Butler: All of life’s dramas

IF THERE WERE AN IKEA for playwriting – where you could easily pick up everything needed to engage an audience with what’s happening on stage – you would still need an instruction manual to assemble all those brilliant ideas of yours. In his new book Notes from a Working-Class Playwright, award-winning Leo Butler painstakingly explains...
A minority of one

A minority of one

WILF KELLY WAS RICH IN TIME. After the sudden death of his young mum thirty years ago, he lost his job. He’d swept bottles of wine onto the supermarket floor and stood in its mess, silent and swaying. The store fired him. He never found work again – and never tried. Time became his personal...