Redundant

"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. But first she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who to trust. Leo Butler won the 2001 George Devine Award for REDUNDANT. His first play, MADE OF STONE, produced in the Royal Court Young Writers' Festival 2000, was praised for its "rock-hard characterisation with buzzing dialogue" (Evening Standard).

Leo Butler is 26 years old and comes from Sheffield. He attended Rose Bruford College in London and has previously received a grant from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. He is the winner of the 33rd Georg e Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. He is currently under commission to the Royal Court Th eatre, London.