I've been asked to write a play. What a dreadful idea'Critics," said the Irish writer Brendan Behan, "are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." Perhaps it was Behan's voice that was whispering in my ear when I recently turned down an invitation to write a short play. It's not the first that's come my way, and of course I was fla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM on February 26, 2012