Jack Thorne's play 'Hope': What would you do as a local politician faced with an impossible choice of cuts?
Plays about politics have always made me nervous. Both as a viewer and a writer. I think everyone has sat in a theatre and felt lectured to. I hope I haven't written any of those plays, but it's possible. The trouble is when I feel I'm being told, or am telling others, what to think. So Hope is an attempt to write a play around a question, rather than around an answer. It's a question that confuses me hugely. It's a …