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welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. imagine a writer with a blank piece of paper. on the face of it, they re free to take their imagination in any direction they choose, tell any story they like. but it s not that simple. they need money, a commission. they need to win an audience, and for that, they must constantly adapt to changing tastes and technologies. my guest is one of the uk s leading playwrights and screenwriters, lucy prebble. she s had huge hits and one notable broadway miss. for a writer, how daunting can that blank piece of paper be? lucy prebble, welcome to hardtalk. hello, stephen. thanks for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you here. now, you are very busy right now, because a play that you originally wrote in 2012 and put on in 2012 has been revived at the national theatre in london in just the last few days. and it s got me wondering, as you have been heavily involved with the revival, how have you sort of seen the evolution of your own ....
the evolution of your own writing and what interests you? have you changed in the decade? yes, i think i have. i mean, it s so interesting to go back to something you wrote just over ten years ago. as you say, 2012 was the first production of it. it s a play called the effect, and it follows. it follows two triallists taking part in a clinical trial for a new antidepressant and two doctors running it. and the triallists basically start to fall in love, but don t know whether they are actually falling in love or if it s an effect of the new antidepressant that they re trialling. and of course, when i wrote it originally, i felt very close to these young sort of romeo and juliet 20 somethings feeling excited and romantic for the first time. and now i feel much closer to the sort of ao something, older doctors who are, you know, dealing with their past and what that means and, you know, just being a bit more adult and older and, hopefully, wiser. do you feel as in love wit ....
we ll talk to a mom who attended the hearing about what she saw. we begin with breaking news on the legal trouble surrounding former president donald trump. more of trump s co-defendants in the georgia election interference case are turning themselves in. a short time ago, lawyers kenneth chesebro and ray smith surrendered to authorities in fulton county, georgia. this came hours after david shafer and cathy latham turned themselves in. one time trump attorney rudy giuliani says he is heading to atlanta today. i m going to fulton county to comply with the law, which i always do. i ll i don t know if i ll plead today, but if i do, i ll plead not guilty and i ll get photographed. isn t that nice? a mug shot for the man who probably put the worst criminals in the 20th century in jail. and now a source familiar with his plan says donald trump will travel to georgia tomorrow afternoon and turn himself in tomorrow night. there is also plenty of drama surrounding two o ....
judge scott mcafee saying he will release a decision today on whether fulton county district attorney fani willis can continue to prosecute the election interference case against donald trump. and the we re expecting that, maybe around 8:45, eastern time today. sometime during our show. one of the legal developments we re following this morning involving the former president. he was in court yesterday as his legal team tried to get the classified documents case dismissed. plus, we ll get a live report from moscow where polls are open for russia s first presidential election in six years, but vladimir putin s total control over the country leaves no doubt what the results will be, and the highest ranking jewish elected official in the united states is calling for changes in israel. now five months into its war with hamas. we ll play for you what senate majority leader chuck schumer said about prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and, my gosh. it s something. if ....
it is a great pleasure to have you here. now you are very busy right now because a play that you originally wrote in 2012 and put on in 2012 has been revived at the national theatre in london in just the last few days. and it s got me wondering, as you have been heavily involved with the revival, how have you sort of seen the evolution of your own writing and what interests you? have you changed in the decade? yes, i think i have. i mean, it s so interesting to go back to something you wrote just over ten years ago. as you say, 2012 was the first production of it. it s a play called the effect, and it follows. it follows two triallists taking part in a clinical trial for a new antidepressant and two doctors running it. and the triallists basically start to fall in love, but don t know whether they are actually falling in love or if it s an effect of the new antidepressant that they re trialling. and of course, when i wrote it originally, i felt very close to these young ....