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Monkeywood Theatre - A Song For The Lovers blog

September 24, 2008

Hi there. I’m Francesca Waite from Monkeywood Theatre.

With only 2 weeks to go until A Song For the Lovers opens at The Lowry (Thu 9 October), rehearsals are well under way with our new Monkey member, director Jo Fisher.

Jo runs her own children’s theatre school, Footlights, and is a very experienced theatre-maker as actor and director, so we are all getting the opportunity to bring something very new to this production.

Although we performed the play as part of the 24:7 Theatre Festival in 2006, the show has undergone radical redevelopment and the script is very different now to the original.

Over the Summer we spent time devising the plot and characters before writer, Sarah McDonald Hughes, got to work on the script and returned with a superb play that we are all really happy with.

The themes of belonging, trust and friendship remain, as do the characters Davy, Catie and Jenna. The action still takes place in real-time in a bar one night in Manchester, but the journeys that the characters take and where they finish has changed. The whole process has been a great opportunity for us, as actors, to maintain the integrity of the familiar original characters on a very new and different course.

We’re all thrilled to be performing this production in the fantastic studio at The Lowry where the audience will feel close to the action, helping the story to bridge reality.

One last thing - check out our brand new website which is being updated constantly with news and pics, everything and anything we want to share, at our website. Or you can visit The Lowry website for more details. 

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