Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet adapted for the theatre: Laura Wade puts lesbian sex on stage

Laura Wade, Sarah Waters and I are sitting in a cafe talking about dildos. “Honestly they are so common these days they are practically a Mother’s Day gift,” says Waters. Wade and I are less convinced. “Yes, and of course they crop up all the time on the stage,” chips in Wade. “There was that recent production of Faust…”