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  • Butler Plays 2

    Airbag; I'll Be the Devil; Faces in the Crowd; Juicy Fruits; 69; Do It!

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Contemporary Dramatists
    Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style and tone, and brings together some of his best-loved works alongside some of his lesser known pieces.*Airbag (Royal Court, Rough Cuts, 2007)an old woman is lying on her death bed, imagining that she is ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Figures in Watercolour

    Speed, Gesture and Story

    by Leo Crane, Roy Joseph Butler ...
    Dive into figure painting with this fresh take on capturing the human form in watercolour.Painter Leo Crane and art model Roy Joseph Butler explore how to interpret the gestures and movements of the figure through the language of paint. Through a range of exercises, they show how to work with the fluidity and immediacy of watercolour to create lively paintings that are bursting with character and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    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 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

    by Leo Butler ...
    Narrated by Leo Butler ...
    Series series Theatre Makers

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    Bloomsbury presents Notes from a Working-Class Playwright, written and read by Leo ButlerAward-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 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Living

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Grow up wantin' to change the world. Spend yer twenties n'thirties in a daze. Fifty turns to sixty n'yer suddenly fightin' the urge not to kill everyone.Sheffield, 1969. Kathy and Brian move into that big old house on Burngreave Road. Just turned twenty, a couple of babies on the way, they've got their whole lives ahead of them.But living is a funny business. Kids, money, work. Thatcherism, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lucky Dog

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Over Christmas dinner Sue and Eddie gossip and discuss the goodtimes they used to have together before their son left home, leaving avoid in their lives. But then Eddie disappears with the dog and theirneighbour's son comes round to liven things up and stay the night.Through the creation of a seemingly banal universe, Butler creates anintense atmosphere of guilt and suspicion within this couple's ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Decades

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    The world's changin', we don't have to just 'make do' anymore. There's stuff out there, there's life, there's … people and experiencin' somethin' meaningful. California, 'Arry, Woodstock, out on the road like a rollin' bloody stone, it's Dylan, 'Arry, that's who I want to be. Yer seriously think I'm goin' to stick round here.Modern life isn't easy and it never has been.This explosive play by Leo ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Redundant

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "You will come back though won't yere, Darren? Yer will come back? Say yer'll come back. Come back."Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. Butfirst she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who totrust.Leo Butler won the 2001 George Devine Award for REDUNDANT. His firstplay, MADE OF STONE, produced in the Royal Court Young Writers'Festival 2000, was praised for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Boy

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    A boy. At a bus stop. Easily missed.Liam wanders through the city, repeatedly encountering people, but continually feeling disconnected and alienated.In this vivid and troubled story of an isolated young man, playwright Leo Butler casts a sharp eye over the city and picks someone for us to follow.Boy received its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 5 April 2016. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Definitive Collection of Societal Rebellion – 4 Classic Defiance Novels

    Enriched edition. The Death of Ivan Ilych, Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Way of All Flesh, The White Peacock

    by Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Samuel Butler, D. H. Lawrence, Alexandra Burgess ...
    The Definitive Collection of Societal Rebellion – 4 Classic Defiance Novels presents an exploration of rebellion through the masterful narratives of literary giants. Each story, while distinct in stylistic approach, unravels the complex interplay between individuality and societal constraints. The anthology captures a gamut of defiance, from personal revolutions to broader societal challenges, ... Read more

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  • All You Need is LSD

    by Mr Leo Butler ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    The drug laws in this country- the drug laws IN THE WORLD - all stem from this attitude that pleasure is a bad thing...In 2015, acclaimed British playwright Leo Butler accepted an invitation from former Government drugs tsar, Professor David Nutt, to be a guinea pig in the world's first LSD medical trials since the 1960s. Monty Python*, Being John Malkovich,* and Alice in Wonderland all resonate ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • National Theatre Connections 2023

    10 Plays for Young Performers

    by Simon Longman, Lisa McGee, Mr Leo Butler, Jordan Tannahill, Avaes Mohammad, Mr Jon Brittain, Molly Taylor, Shamser Sinha, Mr Ed Harris, Alison Carr ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities.The plays offer young performers an engaging and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD