TRAILER/trash is the result of many years of writing, researching and redrafting. I wouldn’t like to put a fi gure on which draft this version is – but it’s a big number and it’s (finally) the final draft. Writing this play hasn’t been a lonely process. I’ve had the good fortune to work with numerous theatre practitioners who have helped me put it on its feet over some years since my first self-funded production in 2012, after which I let it settle for a while. In 2015, I received funding from the National Lottery (Arts Council England) to redevelop it as a research piece in collaboration with the salon:collective. That redrafted version saw one of my original characters, Dottie, reinvented as Shyanne, an African American sex worker. Frankie was redrawn as a more credible non-binary younger person wishing to transition from female to male. The resulting play, a dark comedy set in Texas, is not a work that aims to slam its message ‘in yer face’. Instead it tells a story in which race and gender are secondary to the characters, but yet form the underbelly of the play.