Lucy herself thinks that having a baby so young was the making of her. A playwright whose work on stage and radio has attracted much critical acclaim, Lucy also writes for Channel 4's popular teen soap,opera 'Hollyoaks'. I was on another planet most of the time. I think I was too much of a rebel at 15. I was trying to understand what education was all about.
Late adolescence is a complete nightmare.
I was 18 when I had my son. I had always been fascinated by the theatre. I applied to go to Aberystwyth University to study drama. Anothwer opf her plays, Crossing the Bar,. about a young man in a prisonj cell who hangs himself and in the spiklt seconf as the noose tightens around his neck meets a mediaval nun who starved herself to death to see God, is to be performed at the Lion and Unicorn in London in May. If you've come to this page by a direct route, please use this link to return to the Theatr in Wales main pages .