'I wanted to write a Shakespearean scene with someone in disguise, so I went into a lesbian chatroom pretending to be a gay woman' I was in Atlanta in 1996 with a tour of my play Dealer's Choice and I was dragged along to a lap-dancing club. It seemed a potent, haunting place for a scene about power and sex. That night I wrote a version of the lap-dance scene in Closer with characters called A and B. I wanted to figu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM on July 9, 2019