in the room for sure absolutely and martin liberace lived in a time when being your authentic self could cost you everything what drew you to explore his story now and what do you think he would make of the world that we're living in today

oh i can't imagine what he would make of the world i think he'd be um i think he'd be excited and shocked and I think he would approve and disapprove in equal measure because he lost so much of his time.

I was just fascinated as I wanted to understand him.

I wanted to understand him because it was hard to understand him, particularly from the point of view of now.

It was hard to understand exactly why he lived his life the way he lived his life, or even to understand the kind of public presentation he had.

Writing the play made me understand a lot, allowed me to understand a lot.

I think I made peace with him, which was nice.

yeah just anything that sort of changed your perspective really as you've been stuck into rehearsals or for you martin while you were writing it if anything maybe changed along the way