Sacrifice, legacy and plagiarism: Ian Nicholas and Cian Griffin on staging Lee

Telling the story of Lee Krasner, artist and wife of American painter Jackson Pollock, Lee is a theatre production that explores the life and artworks of the woman behind the great painter, and the sacrifices she made for her partner. Set thirteen years after Pollock’s death, told through a fictional conversation between Lee and an aspiring art student Hank, the play examines the tensions between plagiarism and originality in the act of creativity and how much a successful artist relies on talent and how much on who they know. We spoke to writer Cian Griggin and producer and designer Ian Nicholas about the production