Inspiring playwrights

Quote of the day: “Playwrights and the theatres that produce them should defend the concept of the individually-written new play.”

Although the orthodoxy has been that cuts in arts budgets are bad, for obvious reasons, there is also a strand of opinion that the new age of austerity offers opportunities as well…

Text of the day: “But I do not think you understand the terrible beauty of devotion, this infatuation with God.”

I’ve never really understood why playwright David Greig — surely one of the top five British playwrights to have emerged in the 1990s — isn’t better known in London.