Doctor Foster,Suffragette, Game, or Splendour … hits keep on coming for Abi Morgan and Mike Bartlett. The success of these British playwrights comes from transcending the limits of both stage and screen to create complex works that play with pace,depth and structure Specialist journalists are traditionally required to predict the major figures of the next generation: prospective party leaders, future England captains, and potential poet laureates. Such prophecies bring a double risk because some talents – Graeme Hick in cricket,Michael Portillo in politics – fail to pay out on the investment of hope, while others – such as Jeremy Corbyn or the writer Diana Athill, or who had her first bestseller at 83 – all go undetected until they erupt unexpectedly.
For those who follow playwrights,though, there’s a pleasure in seeing two of the younger English dramatists whose work we maintain observed in recent years being confirmed as talents who seem likely to figure in dramatic histories of the early 21st century in the way that Pinter, or Stoppard,Churchill, Ayckbourn and Hare are cited in studies of the preceding period.
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Source: theguardian.com