Jem Rolls

I'm just at the point where I think, you know, to talk about it.

If I had to fill in funding applications or apply to theatres or deal with a director, they would be asking me quite serious questions a long time ago, not just at this point, you know.

So, you know, and, you know, it was a while where I had lots of the ideas in that last piece, the backstage one, before it became that piece.

And, you know, I just realised looking through it, because some of those lines I've had for 20 years, you know, so, you know, I've just found a way of hooking them all in.

But, you know, again, some of those were cheap games to stop on television, so.

Oh yeah, numerous things actually, bad lines, you know, the kind of thing you write in the first draft and you chuck out and you discover it again and think, oh right, I can, that wasn't a bad line at all.

You know, it just didn't work where it was originally.

But yeah, so that's a vast amount of process.

So I have to say, I'm kind of haunted by the bucket of unused ideas, because it never gets any easier.

And it gets kind of longer.

I thought I was going to use lots of it in this year's show, and it's just, that's not actually...

the way it's turning out.

There will be various personal advantages in publishing because you're just done with the damn thing.

I was going to say, maybe that should be your one published book.

Nothing's ever finished.

Actually, the first two pages would be really good.

It's a funny one.

When nothing's ever finished and nothing exists anymore, no one's ever read it.

I'm not sure about last one.

You've read it.