Laura Wade is an English playwright. (wikipedia)
Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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.
I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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.
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
