“Every time I finish a play, I consider the possibility of making up a name, sticking it on the cover and sending the play off to theatres as an unsolicited manuscript. I always say I will. I never have. This, of course, is entirely about fear. I’d like to think my work has an inherent quality that will be recognised whatever name is on it, and that I’d be offered productions in all the same theatres. But then what if I slide right back down the literary ladders and receive a pile of rejection letters?”