Especially as she doesn’t even have a costume change but retains the same tracksuit throughout. “Each character has a different voice and accent but the physicality needs to be instantly recognisable as well”

Woolley’s success is made even more remarkable by the fact that she has been progressively losing her hearing since she was nineteen years old. She found her talent for performance almost by accident, having started as a writer and then reading her work out loud and getting a good reaction. “I just naturally spoke the dialogue in my stories in character and audiences would laugh lots and I fell in love with performing”. She still loves writing, (‘though you don’t get the applause’). In fact Woolley has just finished a residency as an attached writer at the Soho Theatre, although she had never written a play before she started it. “We worked on lots of different projects - it was excellent and I am now a fully fledged playwright.” As to why audiences should go to see When to Run - “It’s got romance in it, heartache, danger, bigamy, murder, self-improvement and glory”, I am told. “Men seem to enjoy the play just as much as women - and it’s not just a play for runners, couch potatoes love it too. Also, every date is subtitled, so deaf and hard of hearing people can follow it.” ER

When to Run will be performed tonight as the first half of a series of evenings entitled, Teencab, from the Lewes Live Literature Festival organisers. Performances by local teenagers will be set alongside a programme of professional actors and guest appearances from local established writers.