Though she regards theatre as her natural home – Jim Cartwright, Simon Stephens, David Eldridge, Sarah Kane count among her favourite writers – Jordan's first and greatest inspiration was John Sullivan's Only Fools and Horses.
PS 21 (up 24) Michael Grandage, Theatre Director, Donmar A jobbing actor in 1996, Grandage, 44, is now one of Britain's most highly regarded theatre directors, currently artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse.
The situation for actors was not helped by the hostile attitude of the City of London authorities, who regarded theatre as an immoral pastime to be discouraged rather than tolerated.
Tradition is our blessing and our curse, locking us into a tragic farce of cultural elitism that regards theatre, like football, cricket and free health for all, as a gift from Britain to the world.
Neither man is engaged in politics although both have an acute sense of the country's past and present; both, in their different ways, wrestle with the fundamental questions of life and death which have always been at the core of Russian drama.Both men refuse to regard theatre as entertainment.
This version, performed in Polish by the highly regarded theatre company TR Warszawa, purports to show "how individual fears and obsessions materialise in social life", but is really just a flat and achingly slow retelling of a story bled dry with overfamiliarity.
Kids who've previously regarded theatres as either intimidating or irrelevant have clamoured to go back.
The parish lay outside the city walls, and therefore beyond the writ of the Lord Mayor and his aldermen, who tended to regard theatres as a social nuisance and a potential health-hazard.
