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Rehearsal: Characterisation / Backstory/ inspiration for my scene

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In total I am participating in 6 of the pieces of love and information. I'm in ; Grass, Terminal , Star, Recluse,  Earthquake, and Savant. We are all in wedding video at the end. I really like the play, especially the challenging aspect of it being up to the actor and director to shoot the scene. Its got quite controversial especially Terminal - its quite a touchy subject because we have all lost someone to an illness; and to be honest I want to do patients justice by playing it with thought and as natural as possible. And with earthquake; one of the  earliest memories of a catastrophic disaster I remember is the 2011 tsunami/earthquake disaster in Japan. I remember being gobsmacked I was only young at the time. I was in a hotel getting ready to go to a wedding reception, and the contrast of how they must be feeling (sad and terrified) in a midst to the fun I was going to have was compelling in retrospect. Grass For grass, I see myself and my partner Phil as these gangs...

Research on Caryl Churchill

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Caryl Churchill Author and Playwright of our current play,"Love and Information" (2012) Caryl Churchill was born the 3rd of September in London but she has lived in the Lake district and has lived in Montreal also. She went to Lady Margret Hall in Oxford, where she was educated and formed a liking to English. While still studying at University, she wrote her very own play called Downstairs, and in 1958, it was first performed winning an award for the Sunday Times National Union of students drama festival. She was also a writer for radio producing several plays such as , "The Ants (1962) , Lovesick (1967) and Abortive (1971). She was resident dramatist at the royal court '74-75. During the 1970s and 1980s she was apart of the theatre groups of "Joint stock" and "Monstrous regiment". Her most famous play was the 1982 play, "Top Girls", puts its mark on feminism as it centres around five women an...