Is Tony Kushner right that writing plays is a mug's game?
Even the biggest playwrights have to subsidise their work " but maybe we should celebrate writers' ability to survive in the theatre at allAs I start a new teaching post this autumn, it's a sort of comfort to hear the great Tony Kushner confess even he can't pay the rent by writing plays " yet there's always a sneaking feeling of reproach, that real writers should live solely from the labours of their inky fingers. W…