Theatre that dares, wins: why 2011 was a good year for new writing
From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Belongings to Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, 2011 has seen a healthy flock of original plays. But theatre must keep up the good new workIn his roundup of 2011 for the G2 arts pages a few weeks back, Michael Billington argued that "verbatim theatre now occupies the territory once claimed by works of the imagination and that ... few dramatists possess a passionate commitment to the theatre". …