Sarah Braybrooke, Journalist

“All [the female characters in the play] have different struggles, but what unifies them is the theme of ‘Can women have it all?’ Can you be a top executive and a good mother? Can you be the loving and obedient wife, and the people’s woman, and not sacrifice your own sense of self?”

“States are very necessary, and they also protect individuals from harm. But the state, for a variety of reasons, also overstretches its protective role. Kafka very sharply captures that feeling that we get that the state and other forces are too powerful, that we don’t control our lives.”

“I just write about what I know really. Drinking tea. Worrying. There hasn’t been much glamour as yet.”

“There’s a mannequin, a 1940s weirdly-shaped fishbowl, and a stuffed pheasant. These objects bring with them some sense of otherness that things from Ikea just won’t. It puts us into a relationship with stories, and with humanity.”

"It would have been a pretty short game show, and every contestant would have had to watch the film, which would have been annoying. I don’t want anyone else having to go through what I’m going through!"

It’s unlikely you will ever have a better opportunity to indulge in an entire day of stunning theatrical storytelling.

Sarah Braybrooke gets inside the head of Matt Lutton to pull apart his latest play On The Misconception Of Oedipus.

“We do argue a lot, but it’s good because we can be really open and frank with each other… Also we’ve done a lot with other people as well, and, bless ‘em, sometimes it’s hard when you’re working with someone and you have to be a little bit, you know, polite? It can be quite frustrating. Whereas with these guys, I can say ‘that is so stupid!’”

"They are meant to be oddball lovers. So we recognise, and they recognise, that they shouldn’t be together, but when they are together, it works."

“The prince did a lot more than kiss the princess. In fact she slept right through her own pregnancy and giving birth.”

“I won’t be wearing nipple tassles or throwing around pom poms... although, maybe if I got drunk enough.”

“I thought, what does this monster – basically a flying glamourous parasite – do, and I guess, what does it represent?”