The playwright was about to quit theatre but hearing Babe I'm Gonna Leave You led to a sensational, Tony-winning collaboration with Arcade Fire's Will Butler In 2013, I was desperately looking for a way to quit writing plays. I'd had a terrible, scarring artistic collaboration a couple of years prior, and it broke me. And on top of that, I was actually broke, financially. So I decided to give up playwriting, move to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM on May 23, 2025