“A lot of the novel is very theatrical: it plays on the idea of dressing up, cross-dressing and self-invention and, of course, the first third takes place in traditional Victorian music halls,” agrees Wade. And, as anyone who has read that novel or seen the BBC’s 2002 TV adaptation will know, the story of Nan King’s sapphic self-discovery within the netherworlds of Victorian London contains a lot of smouldering between-the-sheets action. We are here because Wade, hot on the heels of the success of The Riot Club, the film about Oxbridge drinking clubs that she adapted from her Royal Court smash hit comedy Posh, has dramatised Waters’s bestselling lesbian romp Tipping the Velvet for London’s Lyric Hammersmith. The discussion of sex toys is not gratuitous. “There was that recent production of Faust…” “Yes, and of course they crop up all the time on the stage,” chips in Wade. “Honestly they are so common these days they are practically a Mother’s Day gift,” says Waters. Laura Wade, Sarah Waters and I are sitting in a cafe talking about dildos.
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