SOPHIE WINTER MEMORIAL TRUST

"Nothing is more important to the future of theatre than the encouragement of new playwrights, and nothing is more encouraging to a playwright than the kind of support the Sophie Winter Memorial Trust can provide: not just the wherewithal to write a play, but even better, to have it produced... I suppose, extending that metaphor, that Sophie Winter and I were comparative newly-weds. Undeniably married, we had made a number of unwritten, unspoken vows to each other. With my talents, such as they be, I thee entrust. That sort of thing. An odd relationship to be sure, sharing, as we did, so much so intimately, being privy to her creative centre, gradually growing to understand her emotional working whilst at the same time knowing little or nothing about her public and certainly her private life.