I've been thinking about writing a big family drama for a while...
I began to think about all the great playwrights whose work forms the foundation for a serious American drama.
And all those mid-century plays with kind of a monster father figure that take place in a living room or a kitchen.
I think I wanted to try and write one of those sorts of plays.
I think it's a good play, I think it's a really interesting play so I hope people will come and see it and listen and like it.
I think maybe the one thing that unites everything that I've written is that I'm intrigued by what will befall us as a civilisation.
What guides our way into the future.
I think that England is as much at sea and as wracked with questions about where we're headed as America is right now.
So I hope the play will speak on that level.
I didn't set out to include comedy, I've always found that if you can't write any jokes you probably can't be a very good playwright.
I just don't think it works without it, I think it's an essential part of the experience.
Doing iHo at Hampstead feels like homecoming, and it is in fact a homecoming.
 
Hampstead Theatre was the second theatre I worked in in the UK, I had a wonderful time working at Hampstead many, many years ago with a really great cast.
So I'm very curious to see how it goes, it's always a little bit of a gamble, but I'm very happy to be returing to Hampstead in 2016.
