"You will come back though won't yere, Darren? Yer will come back? Say yer'll come back. Come back."

Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. Butfirst she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who totrust.

Leo Butler won the 2001 George Devine Award for REDUNDANT. His firstplay, MADE OF STONE, produced in the Royal Court Young Writers'Festival 2000, was praised for its "rock-hard characterisation withbuzzing dialogue" (Evening Standard).

Lucky Dog by Leo Butler:

Over Christmas dinner Sue and Eddie gossip and discuss the good times they used to have together before their son left home, leaving a void in their lives. But then Eddie disappears with the dog and their neighbor's son comes round to liven things up and stay the night. Through the creation of a seemingly banal universe, Butler creates an intense atmosphere of guilt and suspicion within this couple's world.

Published to tie in with the Royal Court premiere in May 2004

Butler Plays: 1 brings together into one volume four of the major plays by this award-winning author. Praised for the gritty detail and realism of his work, Leo Butler has quietly established a reputation in recent years as a potent and skilful documenter of contemporary social and moral issues.

Made of Stone produced in the Royal Court Young Writers' Festival 2000, was praised for its 'rock-hard characterization with buzzing dialogue' (Evening Standard).

In Redundant 'Butler boldly creates a psychologically complex female lead, surrounding her...

Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style and tone, and brings together some of his best-loved works alongside some of his lesser known pieces.

Airbag (Royal Court, Rough Cuts, 2007) an old woman is lying on her death bed, imagining that she is being terrorised by gorillas. Butler's play is an exploration of death and the dying.

I'll Be The Devil (RSC/Tricycle Theatre, 2008): With a poetic...

The world's changin', we don't have to just 'make do' anymore. There's stuff out there, there's life, there's ... people and experiencin' somethin' meaningful. California, 'Arry, Woodstock, out on the road like a rollin' bloody stone, it's Dylan, 'Arry, that's who I want to be. Yer seriously think I'm goin' to stick round here.

Modern life isn't easy and it never has been.

This explosive play by Leo Butler transports us through time, looking at what happens when the next generation begin to find their feet in an ever-changing world.

Through a kaleidoscope of...