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With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it.

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that coming-of-age period of life.

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.