Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013.
Leo Butler's work includes Made of Stone; Redundant; Lucky Dog; Faces in the Crowd (Royal Court); Devotion (Theatre Centre); Heroes (National Theatre Education Tour); I’ll Be the Devil (RSC / Tricycle Theatre); The Early Bird (Queen’s Theatre, Belfast / Finborough Theatre); Juicy Fruits (Paines Plough / Traverse Theatre / Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Sixty-Nine (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival); Could You Please Close the Door Please (FIND Festival / Schaubuhne, Berlin); Alison! A Rock Opera (co-composed with Daniel Persad - Royal Court / King’s Head Theatre / Spread Eagle Theatre).
This lush, savage, nightmarish imagining of colonial Ireland circa
1762 suggests an imagination that has suddenly, gloriously and
recklessly taken wing.
*Time Out on "I'll Be The Devil"*
A gripping play that is not at all pretty . . . This is, in short,
an extraordinary piece of writing which comes at you in a blizzard
of diseased banter
*Daily Mail on "I'll Be The Devil"*
Talk about bang on the money. Leo Butler's outstanding new play -
his best yet - catches the mood of the moment in its raw and
devastating account of a couple who got swept along on a tide of
easy credit, only to end up dashed against a northern rock of debt
. . . This is a timely, savagely brilliant theatrical epitaph for
the New Labour decade of shattered hopes and dreams turned
sour.
*Daily Telegraph on "Faces in the Crowd"*
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