In This Day and Stage: Fringe-Watching Sprint 2020 Chapter 3 Hello again! I am writing this blogpost from my living room and not from the foyer of CPT, a bittersweet experience: ultimately, COVID-19 (that, actually, was featured as a special, even if undesired, guest in both my previous posts) has caught up with the UK, and we find ourselves facing … Read more
In This Day and Stage: Fringe-Watching Sprint 2020 Chapter 2 On Monday evening, after spending the day between university, the tube, and work (Coronavirus, bring it on), I stuck around at Camden People’s Theatre. My friend Anja was to come with me. This happened: Greta, 13:55 Hello hon! Remember last time at CPT you were late and therefore left out? … Read more
In This Day and Stage: Fringe-Watching Sprint 2020 Chapter 1 Testing, 1, 2, 3… Hi! I’m Greta and I’m the Admin & Marketing Intern at the Camden People’s Theatre. Two things about me: 1) I swear a lot; 2) I have a dark sense of humour, the kind that provokes my friends’ hilarity (and disgust, and just a bit of … Read more
Me as a Migrant There are some elements about your life that do not come afloat and into your consciousness unless life throws you in a specific context. I came to this country when I was only 20 years old, I had traveled before but this time it was going to be different. Obviously, so many things changed, I mean, … Read more
Me as a Migrant There are some elements about your life that do not come afloat and into your consciousness unless life throws you in a specific context. I came to this country when I was only 20 years old, I had travel before but this time it was going to be different. Obviously so many things changed, I mean, … Read more
Last time I was at Camden People’s theatre I was showing Kings Cross (REMIX) for the third year running. It was so great and kind of overwhelming to do it here, as it featured heavily in the stories that I tell in the show and is populated by the people in it. The show focuses on the 1980’s: an important … Read more
The way my dad tells it, when I was around eight, one day over the dinner table I just announced: “Words are my friends.” By that age I was already writing poems and stories, and taking an interest in etymology and Scrabble, and basically I was the sort of precocious punchable suck-up kid who would say that sort of … Read more
The themes of the performance are many. Someone might argue that that is a cop-out of an answer. But how can you distil an autobiographical piece into one single theme? It represents a (time in your) life, and whose life only has one theme? So Ophelia Rewound is about many things; it begins at the point of suicide and talks … Read more
I wrote ‘Where is Ban Ki-moon?’ initially as a fifteen-minute piece under duress, because I had to for my degree. I still see forcing plays out of someone as a profound attack on their human rights, especially when they are, like me, a bit lazy when it comes to writing plays. It’s a form of discrimination, really. I’m very happy … Read more
Using personal experience in our most recent show Lovely Girls has had big challenges. As two women, we questioned whether our stories were relevant or interesting. We had never had it with our previous shows at all. When our stories were linked to our experiences of being women, we questioned things – ‘maybe it wasn’t that bad’ ‘maybe it’s not … Read more
