Samuel Bailey: 'I never want to write a play that excludes people back home'
The award-winning writer of Shook grew up on an estate and did not see his world represented on stage. When he acknowledged his shame about his background, he found his voice In 2019, Samuel Bailey's play Shook marked him out as a distinctive new talent, writing about masculinity, class and friendship. But when he first began life as a playwright, his dramas were, he says, "rip-offs" of works he admired. "The first f…
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