Jeremy Herrin on conveying the highs and lows of addiction on stage
"There's a lot of directing to be done," is Jeremy Herrin's first comment about new play, People, Places and Things. He's not wrong: the latest work from innovative playwright Duncan Macmillan is a piece about drug addiction, and an actress called Emma who checks into rehab to try to get clean. But it's no dour tale of gritty realism, as you might expect; Macmillan's masterstroke is to set it entirely from her point …