Playwright Alexander Zeldin: 'Lots of people can make a living being an artist in France. In the UK, that's not the case'
The Paris-based British playwright, back at the National Theatre with The Confessions, inspired by conversations with his mother, talks about the secrets she revealed and the heroism of unexceptional lives "I am always thinking in theatre how to be useful, how not to make it about me," says playwright Alexander Zeldin, with a slight frown. "I think theatre has a unique quality which is that it's at once very private …