This week we are chatting to writer and director Roxy Cook. Roxy's debut play, A Woman Walks Into A Bank, won the 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, and is now about to be performed for the first time.

The play's initial idea came from an incident that happened to Roxy's grandmother, when she really did walk into a bank, but from there, the story is a work of fiction, exploring the consequences of what happened. Set in Russia in 2018, it is a look at Russia and the everyday people that we may easily overlook when we currently think of the country.

A Woman Walks Into A Bank opens at Theatre503 from 21 November. Further information and bookings can be found here.