Award-winning playwright Joe Penhall quizzed (1/2)

31st January 2005

 

INTERVIEW: JOE PENHALL (1/2)

As the Sheffield Crucible revives his Blue/Orange (2000), the playwright discusses his controversial hit about mental health and racial identity. Aleks Sierz quizzes.

A lot of the people you see around on the streets in London have suffered from mental illness.