Tamsin Oglesby is the author of several acclaimed plays and has received commissions from the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theatre. Her previous plays include Really Old Like Forty-Five (National Theatre, 2010), The War Next Door (Tricycle Theatre, 2007), Only the Lonely (Birmingham Rep, 2005), Us and Them (Hampstead Theatre, 2003), Olive (National Theatre) and Two Lips Indifferent Red (Bush Theatre, 1995). Oberon Books publishes Really Old Like Forty Five and The War Next Door.