Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.