Star playwright Patrick Marber can “currently do no wrong. Ten years since he was a stand-up comic, then Steve Coogan’s sidekick, Marber now has three hit plays to his name, Hollywood beating at his door and After Miss Julie, his update of Strindberg’s classic, about to open at the Donmar. Plus another play ‘on the go’. Most people who know Marber would still expect him to find something to moan about. He’s the kind of bloke, for instance, likely to offer a masterclass in misery about turning 40 next year. But no, he says, he feels ‘quite comfortable’ about it.”