Thoughts, ideas and other stuff about Storms…

The beginning…

‘Let’s create a play about an older couple facing adversity, the fury, the laughter, the fallout.’ This was a venture begun with my dear friend, the brilliant David Wenden. We threw ideas around, lunched in London to chew over ideas and yummy wraps, but didn’t find a plot path we both liked.

Then covid. And the loss of dear, funny, lovely David. A heartbreak and shock that shattered so many, from his beautiful family to those of us that worked with him to those whose lives he had inspired and illuminated.

But his words were constantly in my head, and then he started to nag. “Just do it…just write it anyway.” And he wouldn’t shut up.

So I sat down and started to write. Well, actually, I did a lot of stomping around my house improvising conversations and speeches. But I got on and wrote it.

There is just something about this play. Everyone who reads it falls a little bit in love with it, finds something of themselves or their lives and losses in it.

I hope you love it.

I hope David loves it too.

Cheers to you, magic man.

The song…

Isobel’s gift to Mariana is a love song, Still Me.

If you go, if you leave, I’ll still be me without you, still do the things I love, but I don’t want to.

This song underpins more than one relationship in the play and has become a bit of rallying cry for broken hearts.

Miranda wrote the lyrics and the talented Ward Baker composed the music. We recorded the song with Sarah Cameron-West (playing Isobel) and have a video planned…