Three English Plays
I have aspired to be a European playwright ever since I was writing Propaganda Fide in the late 1980s, but trying to create a united culture for the whole European continent doesn't contradict with being able to acutely focus on the condition of your own particular country, in my case England.
The Life To Come and Criminals I wrote twenty seven years ago, but The Wedding is a recent play, only finished in 2009, so the acuteness of my concern for the condition of England remains. The Life To Come is an “issue” play, and reflects my sympathies with some aspects of Roman Catholicism, but both Criminals and The Wedding are consciously within the English theatrical tradition of the state of the nation play. The Wedding in particular is extremely English, the whole play being performed within a box set representing a suburban middle class living room.
