here did my love of theatre and words come from? My mother. She’d deliberately use long words and make me guess what they meant or use the dictionary. She took me to lunchtime performances of Shakespeare comedies in the Peacock when I was nine but I also vividly remember seeing Mike Leigh’s play Abigail’s Party …
’m nine, living in a small town, in Far North Queensland, Australia. My parents have all but given up on finding me an afternoon activity that will get me out of Mum’s florist shop so she can make her bouquets (while simultaneously taking my nose out of a book, and placing it somewhere with kids …
returned to playwriting after a lapse of a number of ill-spent years becoming a lawyer and practicing law. The first play I wrote took place in a pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, over two days in the midst of a great Nor’easter. The script called wistfully for the snow falling outside to be visible through the …