A Playwright Pens A Cycle In 20-Minute Pieces

After a severe epileptic seizure that erased some of his memory, playwright Mark Ravenhill was surprised to learn that he’d agreed to write a new play for each day of the Edinburgh Fringe. “Surely I should be pulling out of this insane undertaking? But then my doctor advised me it would take me several months before I could expect to be fully physically active. What was I going to do with my time? Watch Richard and Judy and eat lots of cakes? Or be a prolific dramatist?”