Laura Wade: 'Theatre has something important to offer in these dark times'
The playwright on picking up where Jane Austen left off, being overtaken by events " and working with her partner, Samuel WestPlaywright Laura Wade, 41, grew up in Sheffield, had her first play produced at and is best known for her 2010 drama Posh, about a Bullingdon-esque university society of future politicians, subsequently filmed as The Riot Club. Her adaptation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel, The Watsons, has…