Lucy, ou Dinqnesh (ge'ez : ድንቅ ነሽ), parfois écrit Dinknesh, est le surnom donné au fossile de l'espèce éteinte Australopithecus afarensis découvert en 1974 sur le site de Hadar, en Éthiopie, par une équipe de recherche internationale.Ce fossile est daté de 3,18 millions d'années. An Interview with Lucy Prebble: A Very Expensive Poison. Sure. I anticipated brainy and, yes, formidably intense.She needs to galvanise herself once again. Focused? She’s still right.” As for the boyfriend, they eventually broke up.“She managed to demystify a lot of technical terms,” said Nick Mooney, who held senior positions at Enron for around nine years, mostly in London.
That, to me, meant Pinter or The Weir – a school-trip sort of thing.’With the staunch support of the Headlong theatre company and its artistic director Rupert Goold to rely on, she soldiered on, at once distracting and supporting herself with a foray into television, scripting the first series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007), an adaptation of the Belle de Jour blog starring Billie Piper. Playwright, screenwriter and University of Sheffield graduate Lucy Prebble reveals all in an interview. I think it’s an invaluable time for discovering friends and working out who you are.Lucy acknowledges that the life lessons she learnt at university were more vital to her career than her actual degree.Lucy and Dr Magnanti were both studying in Sheffield at the same time, how did she react on discovering she was so closely connected to the basis of her screenplay?“I often find initial inspiration in real events, but then might work something fictional out of that.“I wondered if I was actually Belle de Jour and had been fabricating the whole thing in a sort of ‘the detective’s really the killer!’ sort of a way,” she says.“But I think looking back I would rather have done something other than English.Keen to influence the next generation of writers, Lucy offers her experience to those who also want to fulfil the dream and get into writing.She muses on her time in Sheffield, remembering fondly The West End pub and friends that encouraged her to give writing for the stage a go.Lucy is honest as to why she believes things did not pan out as expected on Broadway.“Remember the quality of your writing gets you attention, but not being a dick gets you work.”“It was without a doubt the group of friends I made on my course who inspired me to have a go at writing,” she said.Photo: Lucy Prebble by Robert FullerLucy is dismissive of this theory, “The media have enjoyed speculating on it and it makes perfect sense that the daughters of the generation born post-war would be making in-roads in this way now.“Be kind to people. I’d spent years of my life on it.
She is the author of the plays The Sugar Syndrome, The Effect and ENRON, and adaptation writer of the television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl.