Why my debut play Bloody Difficult Women was as much of a drama offstage as on

Amara Karan as Gina Miller

(Picture: Mark Senior)

I think God came early on to a pretty firm view about me making the switch from journalist to playwright.  First, he threw the pandemic at my debut work, Bloody Difficult Women, pushing its run at the Riverside Studios in west London back from last June to this month. 

One real-life character portrayed in the show suddenly saw fit to barrage the producers with intimidating legal letters. There was then the mighty storm that almost blew the Riverside into the Thames, just as it was starting previews, and then, of course, came the ongoing horror story in the Ukraine that is keeping us all glued to our television screens, in no mood to head out anywhere.