How the other half writes plays: British theatre's most prolific writer jots down some all-too-basic tricks of his trade.(New books)(The Crafty Art of Playmaking)(Book Review)

THE CRAFTY ART OF PLAYMAKING

according to Alan Ayckbourn, Palgrave Macmillan, recently made known York and London. 125 pp $2295 ecclesiastics

THE CLAIMS lay FORTH UPON THE jacket of Alan Ayckbourn's The Crafty Art of Playmaking are perhaps the greatest in number exciting items to be erect in the book. "Sixty plays." "Forty languages." "The most numerous widely performed of all living playwrights." These teasers fill us with awe and wonderment in what manner can one person write 60 plays, bring forth them all, direct many of them and live to write this book? This alone registers as united of the greatest ...