Next Wednesday we have the read-through of my script for The Dress Circle. The read-through is a kind of Waterloo for the script writer or at least, the night before Agincourt. The moment when you hear an actor speak the lines and sometimes, inevitably, think, ‘Well that’ll have to go.’ I always attend the read-through.…

   I just realised there’s something missing from my life. I don’t have a mission statement.  Yikes. How did I overlook that? My attention was drawn to this  piece of 21st century bumfluff  communication jargon by the website for Derry  – City of Culture 2013. I’ve never been to Derry and thought this would be the…