Vincent in Brixton.

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We want it to be a private event and corporate function venue, rather than a vertical drinking establishment. We are in negotiations with the police, with whom we are building bridges. They are fairly receptive and co-operative. It's really a question on agreeing on wording.

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I did a lot of research, both in England and Holland. We know that there was some sort of sexual arrangement. But the actual relationships in the play, I made them up.

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[Wright's play is not exactly a docudrama. But between 1873 and 1874, Van Gogh, then in his early 20s, did indeed live at 87 Hackford Road SW9 in London. He worked in a branch of an Amsterdam uncle's art gallery.] I did a lot of research, both in England and Holland, ... We know that there was some sort of sexual arrangement. But the actual relationships in the play, I made them up.

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Think of the contrast. Brixton in the 1870s. Dark, smoky, foggy London, the opposite of what we associate with Van Gogh's art: the bright colors and the sunny, open scenes in Provence.

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