Siena Kelly
(Picture: Manuel Harlan)This slick, conspiratorial thriller drove theatre nerds into a frenzy before it even opened. A drama about identity theft, it was billed as the first play by “Dave Davidson”, who’d worked “in the security industry” for 38 years. The script was lauded by leading playwrights Simon Stephens and Dennis Kelly.
Rumours immediately abounded that “Dave” was Kelly, Stephens, or another established author, with young or unproduced playwrights particularly aggrieved. The hype designed to promote the play to a wider audience annoyed or alienated chunks of the Court’s core constituency.
