The Smiths, a dead sparrow, heading home on the top deck of the 192 bus … Simon Stephens on writing Port, about the town he thought he'd left behindOne Monday morning before Christmas, I sat in a rehearsal room at the National theatre in London and heard my play Port read in English for the first time in 10 years. It was Graham Whybrow, the former literary manager of the Royal Court, who suggested I write about my …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM on January 23, 2013