Maxwell describes his approach as ?staged writing, dialogue between mostly static figures, favouring an American archetype, often accompanied by irony.’ His plays often revolve around a small group of people held within a contained architecture, their poetically direct interactions revealing authenticity, integrity and problems. Relationships between Maxwell’s characters and their words are considered, yet strikingly indeterminate. In QUEENS ROW, a man’s absence affords three women – mother, lover and daughter – the opportunity to re-evaluate their perspectives on belief, security and class.