Shelagh Stephenson

Culture

Diary of a woman in despair

• 09 July 2001

When the playwright Shelagh Stephenson wrote this diary, she was involved in the casting of Ancient Lights, a new play for the Hampstead Theatre. Another play, Five Kinds of Silence, was running at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and she was simultaneously working on new plays for the National Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, the film of The Memory of Water, and two television projects