‘There’s very few experiences as erotically charged for me as the experience of seeing, happening to be a straight man, a beautiful and talented actress give of herself to make something that I’ve imagined in my head to become real.’ Simon Stephens is a playwright who doesn’t shy away from eroticism in his plays. As the director of Pornography and Song From Far Away Simon writes with razor precision of trapped lives, charged cities and with overpowering sensory detail.