When the RSC company moved from the Stratford-on-Avon season to its month long residency in Newcastle at the beginning of 1990, there was a small festival of work put on by the acting company held in the foyer of the Newcastle Playhouse (now the Northern Stage).
I wrote and directed three monologues, collectively entitled Listen I'm Talking. One of them, Butter, I later developed and made into my first film.