The writer of Channel 4’s hit TV drama This Is England has revealed that he was in tears when filming the final episode and raised the prospect of 1992, 1998 and 2000 editions of the Shane Meadows directed series.

Jack Thorne, who is preparing for a potentially controversial staging of his play Mydidae in Belfast this week, has said he would happily work on “This Is England ’92 … This Is England ’98 … This Is England 2000”, as long as Meadows wanted it.

“Anything Shane would want me to do I would do,” said Thorne before Mydidae, directed by Rhiann Jeffrey opens at the Mac theatre on Tuesday 20 October.

“To be honest I don’t know what Shane wants to do but I think there isn’t a single person who would not want to work with him again, as he is a genius.

“I had massive personal investment from This Is England ’86 onwards, it was the longest single experience of my life, eight years in total and you can’t spend so long inside those characters’ heads without feeling that.”

Thorne said he burst into tears after writing scenes for the female Skinhead character Trev and then “filled up” on seeing the filming of Lol and Woody’s wedding in the final episode, Winter.

He said: “In some of the deleted scenes at the wedding I came in as a character who had played a small part in This Is England ’86. I was this character Carrot Bum and Shane had chosen me because he couldn’t find an actor who was lonely and weird enough.

“So in the script Carrot Bum was actually invited back to the wedding disco in the miners’ social club, although you don’t see him on TV. But still being there in that shoot was amazing enough and I started filling up while we filmed it.”

His play, Mydidae, is expected to provoke protests from evangelical Christians in Belfast because there is full frontal nudity and a scene of a man urinating.

Thorne has defended the naked sequences as the entire drama, about a young couple whose relationship is falling apart after the death of their child, is set in a bathroom.

The screenwriter and playwright, who is working with JK Rowling on a theatre production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, also revealed his own connection to the story.

“My partner and I have gone through IVF treatment and it can tear you apart. It changes you as people and tests your relationship and that is why I felt like I should take the opportunity to write about that terrible strain. I am writing this story about this couple in a real truthful way.

“As I was first asked to write a play about two people in a bathroom I knew what that involved. It is a place where you are in your most vulnerable state and that means sometimes you are nude.

“The two characters don’t spend ages naked but you do need to see them sometimes in that stage in order for it to be honest.

“There is one long scene of nudity at the very centre of the play but it won’t be too prurient. It is simply the state they are in and the key point is the scene where the man runs a romantic bath for his partner, and the awkwardness of that situation in which he is trying desperately to reconnect with this woman.

“People watching will get this I hope and almost forget that the couple aren’t wearing any clothes. I can’t see why anyone would be offended by this couple’s story.”

As well working with Rowling, Thorne is also writing a drama for Channel 4 called National Treasure about a British celebrity accused of child sexual abuse.

But the 37-year-old writer will probably always be tied up emotionally with characters such as Lol, Woody and Milky from This Is England.

Asked if he followed any of the youth cults like punk or skinhead that the characters belonged to, Thorne said: “No, not me. I was none of those and that is why I was chosen to be Carrot Bum because I was the weird kid at the back of the class. I was the token nerd on the show.”

• Mydidae is at the Mac theatre, Belfast, 20-25 October