Who'd be a playwright?

The Independent - London | November 27, 1994| | Copyright

HERE we go again. Once more, a group of arty-farties, unable or unwilling to cut it in the marketplace, starts whingeing on about how the taxpayer owes them a living. Being writers, their self-interest is naturally buttressed by all sorts of apocalyptic stuff about the Death of the Form. Does not this tired controversy (kicked off naturally by a letter to the Guardian) echo the equally jaded debate over whether elderly playwrights have a right to have their plays done forever as of right? Can it really matter to anyone outside the narrow circle of literary luvvies?

Well, yes, it does. What is ...

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