Meet Lila Raicek: the provocative New York playwright about to set the West End ablaze with My Master Builder

‘I love Claridges and the Connaught for a martini,’ says Raicek. In the early stages of rehearsals, Grandage took Lila and the cast for dinner at Arlington, restaurateur Jeremy King’s new venture. Then Lila and Grandage have been grabbing dinner close to the theatre at the Ivy Club and J Sheekey. Raicek has been taking writing breaks at the Wallace Collection and the London Library. The latter, Raicek was years earlier taken round by the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. ‘A mutual…