In that respect, my generation of television playwrights was lucky.
It is usually difficult to eat and drink on stage the meals the playwrights refer to.
Sometimes he is a playwright and sometimes he is a prose writer.
At first sight, the success of the chosen playwrights was immense.
How does having the playwright there make a difference?
Or it may adopt brand new clothing, the objective of the playwright being invariably to throw light on today's political order.
The new playwrights were supposed to tell us something relevant about ourselves, not just express a cold directorial vision packaged in an expensive production.
The first is the popular conviction that the playwright is not a craftsman but a genius.