Patrick Marber on 'The Red Lion', writer's block, and getting fired from 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
"I wrote that play as a warning to myself " then ignored my own warning." Patrick Marber is talking about Howard Katz, a play he wrote in 2001 in which a 50-year old man has a midlife crisis. The playwright has now caught up to his character: he is 50 years old and, he says, "I did have a midlife crisis. I'm probably still having it. I did get lost and not know what I wanted and how to be in the world."