'I was once called "the Asian woman Bengali writer". I thought, why not just call me a writer?'What got you started?Getting my play The Waiting Room on at the National [in 2000]. I'd been on a placement at the theatre's studio " they put me in a soundproofed room with hessian walls, and I spent a year writing it. It was an amazing feeling when Trevor Nunn decided to put it on.Is theatre " as Nicholas Hytner once…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PM on February 14, 2011