Laura Wade
Laura Wade
Laura Wadeis an English playwright...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
killer less plays serial
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.
invited job loathe people plays
It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
both edge family natural putting quite rather shy
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.
advances grieving interested left mean opportunity people
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?
society
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
bristol early final pages produced studio union war wrote year
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?
believe means privileged time
I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
gave good sports sticking successful 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.
band becoming expanding extending fiction germs observed quite rubber stretching
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
becomes repeat texture tribe
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
behave love people rich sort watching
I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
best corners full looks
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
absolutely impeccable portable
A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.