American playwright Jeremy O Harris spent most of lockdown in a mews in Finsbury Park, north London. His play Daddy had been due to open in March 2020 at the Almeida theatre in nearby Islington. “I think if I had been in New York, I would have just been drinking in this small apartment and maybe doing ketamine all the time,” he tells me. “That’s what a lot of people I know in New York ended up doing. In my mews there was no ketamine. I did get addicted to natural wine.”
“If I had been in New York, I would have just been in this small apartment doing ketamine all the time