From The Guardian: Playwrights are more important than politicians. So why do powerful people mesmerise me?
There is a certain bond between playwrights. I suppose it’s because we have such a strange job: paid to put words into the mouths of people pretending to be someone else. And our shared concerns as playwrights – finding a good director, dealing with theatre managements, ducking the brickbats of critics – mean that we always have far more in common than our plays would suggest. Running a country must be a strange job, too, and a lonely experience; it must be quite a relief to meet another world leader, whatever their politics.