Tom Basden: finding the funny in the prison of your personality
As Holes opens in London, the playwright talks about the loneliness of standup, his affection for his characters and having a plane-crash comedy open at the time of a real air disasterVery rarely, reality has the knack of upstaging art with a spectacularly unforeseen twist. Tom Basden's play Holes is set on a desert island in the aftermath of a plane crash. Three of the four survivors are colleagues on their way to a…