“I think I always felt ashamed of my childhood, and I kind of reclaimed it by creating this character, Skip, who is fiercely unapologetic and defiant. There’s this added dimension of being a native Londoner — specifically a native east Londoner — where you’re growing up knowing that you’ll never be able to afford a house where you grew up. That shouldn’t be an unreachable dream, to just want to live where you were born, to end where you began. In a lot of ways, I think it’s a play that I was born to write.”
‘It feels bleak living in London’: new play House Party explores the impact of the housing crisis
