After the columns, the feuds and the ex-lover's hatchet jobs, comes Julie Burchill: the play, with a guest appearance from the target of one of the writer's longest-running rifts. The one-woman show - starring the comedian Jackie Clune - will be set in the front room of the vitriolic columnist's Brighton mansion while her boyfriend lurks off-stage fixing the computer because the "I" key has jammed. The journalist Toby Young - who fell out with Burchill after their launch of the Modern Review - is set for a walk-on part on the first night. Julie Burchill Is Away opens on June 10 at the Soho theatre, a stagger from the Groucho club where Burchill "ruled London" in the 1980s. It is being written by Tim Fountain, whose award-winnning show, Resident Alien, portrayed Quentin Crisp telling his story from a filthy one-room apartment in New York. Fountain, who is making the final changes to his new play, said he would tell the "complete, warts and all" story of Burchill's rise from a Bristol council estate in the 1960s, via rock journalism and 1980s Soho to her current seaside retreat, "barely furnished save a bust of Lenin and a heated outdoor pool". He could not say how much will feature of the Guardian columnist's hard living, her former husbands, Tony Parsons and Cosmo Landesman, or her two sons. But the show would be as "strong" as Peter O'Toole's interpretation of an earlier laureate of Soho, Jeffrey Bernard, in Keith Waterhouse's play, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. Fountain said: "There is no point making it too pretty. It will not be a hagiography - that wouldn't be interesting. It will be written in the spirit of Julie Burchill. The audience can make up their own minds about her. "All her friends think she's mad to let me write what I want." Burchill said yesterday: "Hopefully I will get some insight into myself." Asked about litigation from figures in her past, she said: "No one from my past need worry, as they're not going to appear in it. That's what's going to upset them. It's just about me. My boyfriend is happy to be off-stage mending the machinery in it, because he's very good with his hands. "Tim is a brilliant playwright. When he first called, I thought he was having me on. I'm very pleased about Jackie, as she's a brilliant actress, good looking, seven years younger, and seven stone lighter, than me. "I've done nothing to be ashamed of, and not many other people can say that about their life." Asked who would go and see the play, she said: "Every freak and loser in this town, I imagine." Clune said: "People keep asking me, will I do the Burchill voice? To which I reply: 'This is not going to be Stars in Their Eyes.' It's going to be an interesting portrait of a very funny, very sharp, personality, and people will be surprised."