The dark, disturbing genius of Philip Ridley
The Pitchfork Disney overturned my ideas about British theatre in 1991 " and Tender Napalm shows Ridley remains an unmissable talentIn 1991, I went to the Bush theatre in west London. I'd left university with a rather overconfident sense of what was going on in British playwriting: British plays were either big and shouty, or intimate and quiet. Either they were boldly large-cast, epic and presentational, or they wer…