Dramatists of Today

Dramatists of Today discusses principal contemporary writers including chapters on playwrights as different as T. S. Eliot and Ben Travers, Sean O'Casey and R. C. Sherriff. The treatment is in no way academic. Trewin looks at his chosen writers with a playgoer's eye, 'He puts more emphasis', he says, 'upon the immediate effect of the plays in the theatre for which they were written than on their fate in the study where they can be read at ease and pondered - maybe too portentously'. This clear, direct book, pleasantly independent, is illustrated by scenes from some of the plays mentioned in the text.