Penelope Skinner: 'I want to be a waitress in an American diner'
The award-winning playwright takes a funny route to the serious stuffWhen Penelope Skinner wrote her first play, in 2008, for the Old Red Lion theatre in north London, she had trouble coming up with a title. Eventually, she decided to call it Fucked. Though not wholly inappropriate for a piece about lap-dancing, prostitution and a woman's mental decline, the title was, she explains, partly a joke. "That was what you'…