Initial impressions of an everyman older dad are offset somewhat by a hipster T-shirt chosen for him by his three-year-old daughter, Kezia, and an ability to swing the conversation from Euripides to pub brawls in the blink of an eye.ĭennis Kelly: “I sometimes think the fact violence hasn’t found a voice in me is not because I’m a great guy, but because I’m not very good at it.” Credit:Getty Images The electric guitar hanging on the wall – a replica of Johnny Marr’s Fender Jaguar – was a gift to himself during a particularly tough writing project. The architect of all this mayhem hoists himself out of his office chair to let his dog, Freddy, into the garden. And psychological thriller After the End is a battle of the sexes inside a nuclear bunker that descends into “rape, violence and humiliation”. DNA is the story of teenagers who kill a classmate and cover it up. Debris features a crucifixion and was described by one shell-shocked critic as “a memorably nasty and distinctive debut”. His stage plays go further – much further – than his work for the small screen. The man who won a Tony Award for the book for Matilda the Musical – the international hit based on Roald Dahl’s perturbing novel – co-wrote the fall-down-drunk TV sitcom Pulling with its star Sharon Horgan and won a cult audience for his conspiracy thriller Utopia, is the go-to guy for dark, often violent material leavened with his brand of sweary humour. It’s not a bad summation of the Kelly oeuvre. “My plays are often seen as very dark, but I never see them that way.” The 53-year-old Londoner pauses, then says: “Of course, they also acknowledge humans do some f-ing terrible things.” I’ve got a complex relationship with humanity,” says Dennis Kelly. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size
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