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The myth of the debut

by Andrew Haydon

Polly Stenham's That Face has been hailed as a great debut, but a playwright's first professional production is rarely really their first workPolly Stenham wrote That Face when she was 19. Photograph: Alex Macnaughton / Rex FeaturesWith the long-awaited West End transfer of Polly Stenham's Royal Court debut That Face, our thoughts turn to first plays and the recent boom in young writers. Even by recent standards, Ste…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:26am on November 18, 2015