Seven young female drama students have
written two short plays as part of their exam work, they have
developed them and brought them to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
‘Let them call it Jazz’ and ‘Flat Pink Roses’ are
similar in content in that both look into the authors relationship
with characters in their work.
In ‘Let them call it Jazz’ we see
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Katie Dallas), her creation The
Doctor’s Wife (Posey Wilson) with Jean Rhys (Sarah Butler) and
her creation Bertha Mason (Charlotte Cox), incarcerated in an
insane asylum.
In ‘Flat Pink Roses’ a writer (Kate
Dallas) discusses her proposed biography of Sylvia Plath with her
friend Esther (Morgan Mackintosh), at the same time we see
innocent Plath (Josephine Breese) and experienced Plath (Emily
Tobin).
The interactions of all the characters in
the two plays are cleverly written and very enjoyable, the time
passed very quickly and I just couldn’t believe the show was
over. For an initial
original work these young ladies have done so very well and I hope
they go on with both the righting and performing as both were a
class act.
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