Notes from a Working-Class Playwright: Theatre Makers
Autor Leo Butleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 noi 2025
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350429468
ISBN-10: 1350429465
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Theatre Makers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350429465
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Theatre Makers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
Both a practical guide to playwriting and a memoir, Butler talks eloquently about childhood and place (he was raised in Sheffield) as an endless deep well for him to draw on as a playwright.
For me, [Leo] Butler is a poet of the human damage of poverty. His language is terse and fractured. He reminds me as much of Emily Dickinson as he does of many playwrights. He is, I think, as close as English theatre has come to the master of Bavarian naturalism Franz Xavier Kroetz.
This book is much more than an autobiography. Using his experience of mentoring playwrights all over the UK and beyond, Butler offers lots and lots of excellent advice about writing: getting started, how to develop an idea, how to structure a play, how to find the hidden play inside you, and then some super stuff about coping with rehearsals, press nights and all the rest . His enthusiasm for the work of other playwrights runs like a thumping heartbeat throughout the text. He also pays tribute, not only to directors, but also to lesser known inspirations such as Ola Animashawun of the Court's Young Writers Programme, and the late Elyse Dodgson of their International Programme. And so much of this is deeply personal, such as extracts of rejection letters and honest recollections of downs as well as ups. Flicking through the book you get a real sense of the author's personality: leftfield, often inspiring, sometimes cranky, theatrically ambitious and extremely practical. It's occasionally surreal, sometimes funny and always revealing. Filling you with the feeling of creativity unleashed . Notes from a Working-Class Playwright is a really fine book about playwriting that's both fascinating as a life story and compelling as a series of good ideas, all of which glitter in the mind long after you've put down the volume.
A really fine book about playwriting that's both fascinating as a life story and compelling as a series of good ideas, all of which glitter in the mind long after you've put down the volume.
For me, [Leo] Butler is a poet of the human damage of poverty. His language is terse and fractured. He reminds me as much of Emily Dickinson as he does of many playwrights. He is, I think, as close as English theatre has come to the master of Bavarian naturalism Franz Xavier Kroetz.
This book is much more than an autobiography. Using his experience of mentoring playwrights all over the UK and beyond, Butler offers lots and lots of excellent advice about writing: getting started, how to develop an idea, how to structure a play, how to find the hidden play inside you, and then some super stuff about coping with rehearsals, press nights and all the rest . His enthusiasm for the work of other playwrights runs like a thumping heartbeat throughout the text. He also pays tribute, not only to directors, but also to lesser known inspirations such as Ola Animashawun of the Court's Young Writers Programme, and the late Elyse Dodgson of their International Programme. And so much of this is deeply personal, such as extracts of rejection letters and honest recollections of downs as well as ups. Flicking through the book you get a real sense of the author's personality: leftfield, often inspiring, sometimes cranky, theatrically ambitious and extremely practical. It's occasionally surreal, sometimes funny and always revealing. Filling you with the feeling of creativity unleashed . Notes from a Working-Class Playwright is a really fine book about playwriting that's both fascinating as a life story and compelling as a series of good ideas, all of which glitter in the mind long after you've put down the volume.
A really fine book about playwriting that's both fascinating as a life story and compelling as a series of good ideas, all of which glitter in the mind long after you've put down the volume.