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...
Learning from the masters
Forget thrillers. Forget horror. Forget (forgive me) crime, and historical novels, and all the rest. For me, if you want a page-turner, Icelandic sagas are where it’s at. Sagas are the novels of the medieval world. By which I mean, as prose narratives go, they’re miles ahead of anything else being written in medieval Europe:...
