Who'd have a career as a playwright?
From John Osborne to Howard Brenton, many fine playwrights have suffered periods of neglect " but, as Peter Nichols's resurgence shows, dramatic fortunes can rise as well as fallIt's notoriously difficult to maintain a long career as a playwright. Despite having written Look Back in Anger, one of the landmark plays of the 20th century, John Osborne (1929-94) had no new plays staged in Britain for 16 years between Wat…