Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Spurling ya fara aikinsa a matsayin marubucin wasan kwaikwayo yana da shekaru goma sha biyu lokacin da ya fara fuskantar wasan kwaikwayo na Shakespeare a Makarantar Dragon kuma ya rubuta wani abu mai ban dariya, wanda abokan aikinsa suka yi, game da mamayewar Julius Caesar na Birtaniya
Ka yi haƙuri. A cikin 1956 ya rubuta kuma ya jagoranci wasan kwaikwayo na Kirsimeti don rundunarsa a Jamus kuma a cikin 1958 wasan kwaikwayonsa na Pirandellian "Char. " ɗalibin ETC (Kwarewar Gidan Wasanni) ya yi a Oxford Playhouse. Bayan wasan kwaikwayon daren Lahadi na wasan kwaikwayonsa "Gerald" wanda Michael Denison ya jagoranta a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Duke na York, Spurling ya ba da tallafin shekaru biyu daga ƙungiyar Manajan West End kuma ya rubuta "MacRune's Guevara", game da Che Guevara da ya mutu kwanan nan, wanda aka yi a 1969 ta gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kasa kuma daga baya a kasashe da dama a duniya. Abubuwa daban-daban na wasan kwaikwayonsa na baya sun haɗa da Ovid, da Shugaba Mao da Aztecs duk a cikin wasa ɗaya; gano Amurka; Daular Burtaniya; Racine; Falsafa na Girka Hypatia, wanda 'yan majami'u Kirista suka kashe; da kuma Arabian Nights na Saddam Hussein. Ya kuma rubuta wasan kwaikwayo don talabijin da rediyo. Spurling ya wallafa littafinsa na farko a shekarar 1989 kuma zuwa shekarar 2015 rubuce-rubucensa sun kai wasan kwaikwayo talatin da biyar (wasu kaɗan har yanzu ba a yi su ba), litattafai huɗu, littattafai biyu na sukar adabi da kuma littafin tatsuniyoyin Girka.