Doug Lucie was born in Chessington, Surrey, in 1953. His plays include Doing the Business; Fashion; Fear of the Dark; Force and Hypocrisy; Gaucho; Grace; The Green Man; Hard Feelings; Heroes; John Clare's Mad, Nuncle; The Key to the World; Love You, Too; The New Garbo; Oh Well; Pass It On; Poison; Progress; Rough Trade; The Shallow End; Strangers In the Night and We Love You.

Doug Lucie's signature spikiness remains intact, and then some . . . Telling of the various meltdowns, betrayals, and shifting alliances in a shared house in Brixton while riots rage just beyond the front door (the year is 1981), the play serves as a reminder of the invaluable prickliness offered up by Lucie . . . Lucie's skill lies in taking us inside an assemblage of people that he knows too well simply to dismiss . . . the characters always emerge as individuals first and points on the social, political, and class spectrum second . . . Times may have changed, but the divisiveness and anger off of which the play feeds so exhilaratingly walk among us still.

Doug Lucie was born in Chessington, Surrey, in 1953. His plays include Doing the Business; Fashion; Fear of the Dark; Force and Hypocrisy; Gaucho; Grace; The Green Man; Hard Feelings; Heroes; John Clare's Mad, Nuncle; The Key to the World; Love You, Too; The New Garbo; Oh Well; Pass It On; Poison; Progress; Rough Trade; The Shallow End; Strangers In the Night and We Love You.

Doug Lucie's signature spikiness remains intact, and then some . . . Telling of the various meltdowns, betrayals, and shifting alliances in a shared house in Brixton while riots rage just beyond the front door (the year is 1981), the play serves as a reminder of the invaluable prickliness offered up by Lucie . . . Lucie's skill lies in taking us inside an assemblage of people that he knows too well simply to dismiss . . . the characters always emerge as individuals first and points on the social, political, and class spectrum second . . . Times may have changed, but the divisiveness and anger off of which the play feeds so exhilaratingly walk among us still.