Writer Edwin Flay describes what motivated him to create a play about the serial killer GP.
A large gentle man with a dark suit, big bushy beard and a bowl of sweets on his desk.
It was there that he first came into contact with the GP, who became one of the UK's most prolific serial killers. He said: "My grandmother, when she passed away, was extremely ill. She had two kinds of cancer and an as yet undiagnosed form of dementia and when she died, my mother and I were not entirely surprised. It was a little bit sudden."
"So I initially started very naively with the idea of writing a more nuanced take on the man and then within two weeks I binned all my notes. When I read about just the sheer extent of what he had done. "And I realised that the society was starting to lose sight of the full extent of what he'd done. And so I went from wanting to do a more nuanced, possibly more sympathetic examination of him, to going completely the other way and wanting to lay bare, in a show, the full extent of what he'd done."In writing the production, the playwright drew on the four-year public inquiry into Shipman's murders, which produced its final report in 2005.
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