In some ways, choosing what to include and what to leave out seems to me intrinsic to the discipline of the play in a way that is quite different from the novel.

Playwriting is the most collaborative of writing disciplines; on stage, an audience is seeing a version of your work that’s been filtered ... The relationship between writer and consumer is different – more distant? Less immediate? But still exhilarating.

As writers we often play detective – probing, investigating, discovering, each step bringing us closer to the truth. But what if the subject of your investigation is mysterious, surly, contradictory and often inaccessible?