I’m treading the
boards again! Touring in Cardboard
Citizens production of Cathy. Been a
while, but auditioned a month or so ago for this wonderfully powerful play by Ali
Taylor which addresses many current issues regarding homelessness. I’m playing five different roles and had a
week to learn them before opening at the Pleasance Theatre in London as the
previous actor had fallen ill and was unable to carry on... A bit nerve-wracking the first few nights,
but all is going well and I’m really enjoying acting once more. We have also been playing at hostels and a
woman’s prison, meeting some incredible people whose lives are sometimes sadly
mirrored somewhat in the play. We do a
thing called ‘forum theatre’ afterwards involving the audience directly in
decisions which the main character may have made to change her history; a
unique theatrical technique I have never done before, but which really gets
ideas and passions flowing. Below are
links to Cardboard Citizens and ‘Cathy’.
It’s quite an extensive tour if you can catch it...
Book now for our brand new Forum Theatre piece Cathy, on tour until Feb 2017. Written by award-winning playwright Ali Taylor and directed by Adrian Jackson, this powerful, interactive piece explores resonances with Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home to offer a timely reflection on the impact of spiralling housing costs, gentrification and the challenges of the forced relocation away from London.
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