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THE DEEP SPACE - RETOLD

8/2/2015

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Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick...a blast from the past for this evening's challenge: Go back to an old play and pick, pick, pick it apart and then try and stick it back together.

So...I went back to THE DEEP SPACE. My debut play went on at the Old Red Lion Theatre in February 2013 and the experience was, well, intense. To revisit it almost exactly two years later brings with it a huge dollop of tender nostalgia and an almost unsettling warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach. I love this play. It nearly broke me - in the writing, in the producing, in the performing - but without question it is my proudest achievement to date. I say this without vanity but in pure acceptance of the knowledge that if I knew then what I know now I probably would have been too scared to have even attempted to write (never mind try and sell) a play about love, sisters, alcoholism, incest, rape, murder*...but in my sweet, blissful ignorance try I did and I like to think that, for the main, I succeeded. It certainly started me off down a hugely exciting path that's so far resulted in A STUDY IN SCARLET, THE RULES and dozens more short plays and film scripts currently relaxing in my Dropbox account awaiting a bit of love and attention...

THE DEEP SPACE - RETOLD contains spoilers. You've been warned.

L x

*'a contemporary Greek tragedy' according to Time Out
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    Every day of February 2015, Lila will write and share a short play based on a theme set by The Space as part of the 28 Plays Later challenge. 

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