Living by Leo Butler
Grow up wantin’ to change the world. Spend yer twenties n’thirties in a daze. Fifty turns to sixty n’yer suddenly fightin’ the urge not to kill everyone.
Sheffield, 1969. Kathy and Brian move into that big old house on Burngreave Road. Just turned twenty, a couple of babies on the way, they’ve got their whole lives ahead of them.
But living is a funny business. Kids, money, work. Thatcherism, Blairism and Trump. As the world turns around them, will Kathy and Brian keep their home together through sixty years of change?
Award-winning Sheffield playwright, Leo Butler’s (Lucky Dog, Boy), state-of-the-nation drama about all the years of our lives.
This edition was published to coincide with the Sheffield Theatres' production in March 2026.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Blasted
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Enron
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Twelve Angry Men
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Punk Rock
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Lungs
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Posh
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The Play That Goes Wrong
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
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One Man, Two Guvnors
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Memory of Water/Five Kinds of Silence
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Noises Off
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The Cripple Of Inishmaan
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Every Brilliant Thing
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DNA
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Shirley Valentine and One for the Road
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The Street Of Crocodiles
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Punch
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Emilia
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seven methods of killing kylie jenner
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Woyzeck
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Wasted
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Antigone
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Refugee Boy
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'Rita, Sue and Bob Too' and 'A State Affair'
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Earthquakes in London
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American Buffalo
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Lovesong
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The Cherry Orchard
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Mother Courage and Her Children
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Crave
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A Doll's House
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The Wonderful World of Dissocia and Realism
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Baby Reindeer
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The Effect
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A Servant To Two Masters
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Confusions
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1984
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Andorra
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Night Watch
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Phaedra's Love
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Di and Viv and Rose
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The Arsonists
Leo Butler is an award-winning playwright. His plays have been produced by many of the UK's most important theatres, including National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, Birmingham Rep, and Royal Shakespeare Company.
He has written many celebrated plays about young people, including Made of Stone (Royal Court), Redundant (Royal Court), Boy (Almeida), and Decades (Brit School/Bridge Theatre Co.)
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781350635272 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350635278 |
| Title | Living |
| Author | Leo Butler |
| Series | Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2026-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |