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I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

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Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?

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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

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I don't like writing with real people in mind.

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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: Unknown

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