More writers are under commission and on development schemes than ever before but the Royal Court receives 3,000 scripts out of the blue each year. Three of its shows this autumn were plucked from the slush pileIn the mid-80s, an unemployed actor sent the Royal Court scraps of his writing. These scenes " or, more often, half scenes, snapshots of life in the north of England " would arrive sporadically on chewed-up bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AM on October 29, 2015