About the Author

Ian Buckley went to Christ's College Cambridge from the Elliott Comprehensive in Putney and, having obtained an Honours degree in English Literature and a soccer blue, he then gained an MA from The University of Kent, researching the works of Sean O Casey. It was time to change course. Be creative not critical. Be a playwright. That's what he's been doing ever since. Ian has had a number of plays performed on the London fringe: Keeping Faith (The Kings Head); First Timers (The Dukes Head); Suits & Blouses (The Room at The Orange Tree); Down The River (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, touring show); Picasso s Artful Occupation (The Old Red Lion); Tainted Love (The Young Actors Theatre). He's been short-listed for the following playwriting competitions: the Verity Bargate Award; the Maddermarket Award; The Bruntwood Manchester Royal Exchange (long short-listed with The Return); the Brockley Jack Write Now Three competition. He's had a play on BBC Radio Four, Changing Gear, re-broadcast in translation on Hessische Rundfunk in Germany, who also broadcast The Revolutionary.