"Visually you've got so much there, you just think, 'My goodness, it's a film'. She gives you so many clues to the character in her drawings. The characters are really well observed, all of them." Frears too found having Posy Simmonds' illustrations as a reference point an aid: "...
‘Grief fills the room up of my absent child.’ And so, in his late plays there’s this tremendous desire to reconcile and bring unity, to reunite family and reunite a family atmosphere. He also wrote many plays with twins as major characters, and, I think he especially understood the ...