Notes from a Working-Class Playwright
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350429468
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 232x156x16 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 700
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Long description:
Award-winning British playwright, Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights through the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme.
With honesty and humour, Leo Butler shares his experiences from his working-class upbringing in Sheffield, including his disastrous state education, his years on the dole, to his breakthrough into the professional theatre industry.
This personal account criss-crosses his life and career, exploring the influences and experiences that informed critically acclaimed plays such as Redundant, I'll Be the Devil, Lucky Dog and, more recently, Boy.
Throughout, Butler includes a wealth of tips and practical exercises, tried and tested on his students, to help the reader with their own playwriting development; discusses the challenges of how to actually make a living from this work; and considers how the landscape has changed today from 25 years ago.
Through recollections of collaborations with professional peers and ex-students (including Polly Stenham, Anya Reiss, and Nick Payne), Leo Butler gives an insight into the intricacies of the early 21st century theatre scene in which playwriting skills were developed and shared. He also includes excerpts from personal rejection letters, rehearsal notes and his notebooks to bring his playwriting journey to life.
Brutally honest, often surreal, often funny, this book will entertain and inspire anyone who has ever thought of writing, a play, or is interested in the life and practice of a playwright.
Table of Contents:
A Note
1. The Hidden Play
2. Getting Started
3. I Know My Place!
4. Tungsten Carbide Drills or What's a Working-class Playwright Anyway?
5. Make It Up as You Go Along
6. I Can Play the Lion Too!
7. How to Write a Play
8. The Multi-locational Life and Times of (Insert Name Here) and Other
Structures.
9. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!
10. Births n' Rebirths n' Rewrites n' Bellyaches.
11. The Magic Toybox.
12. What the F*ck is a Dramaturg?
13. Now and Then.
Appendix #1: Q & A Exercise
Appendix #2: The Twelve-week Course
Appendix #3: Some plays and films.
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
