Down House (Re) Visited

I take a physical trip to a place where I've spent ages in my head and in my heart.

I’ve got a lot of time for Charles Darwin.

He’s welcome in my head anytime. We hang out together for ages during a frenetic and wonderful period in my life when I’m writing one of my more successful plays¹.

I dash it off in the course of a month, simultaneously hoovering up biographies (mainly) and his writing (some, I find it dense), while doing an conv…