Walking in their shoes...
In amongst all the lovely things I’ve done
this week one of my main victories has been finishing the script for, “Remember
the Oaks.” It’s been dancing
around in my head for quite some time now and it was such a relief to get it
out on paper. All credit goes to
my excellent cast, who have supplied me with so many excellent ideas enabling
me to write something we can all be proud of.
It occurs to me that one of the most
interesting things about my job is that I get to walk in the shoes of people of
all ages, from all ages. To write
this play I walked in the shoes of most brave, steadfast and genuine people and
it was such a privilege…men who gave their lives for their industry and the
women that lost them. The
generations that followed in their footsteps, the ones that forgot and the ones
that have a sense of where they have come from. It’s a play about the importance of remembering…of knowing
where you cam from…it’s about havng pride in your community, your heritage and
your legacy.
There’s always a lot of pressure when I’m
writing…mainly from myself – I want the script to be good, I want it to be
better than the last one…I want it to engage and inspire the actors and
entertain and enlighten the audience.
There is more pressure this time – I have a community that have trusted
me to tell their story and some of them will be in the audience. Never has there been a more important
time for me to be authentic as a writer…I hope I’ve achieved it…I’ve certainly
tried.
The next step is to enable my actors to walk
in the shoes of the characters of the play so we can tell the story to our
audience on the 24th of July.
It would be wonderful if you could be there to support us and the NUM
and the Remember the Oaks cause – you can get your tickets here…it's the performance at 2.30pm
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