PRETENDING

by Lyn Ferrand

PRETENDING is the story of six actors and a director convinced that theatre will change the world. Based at a converted chapel in rural Devon, the theatre company struggles with a lack of funding and local prejudice. Invited to tour a new play about global warming to small town America, they succeed in upsetting their benefactors and audiences. They return to Devon and an uncertain future, where they are forced to confront reality and their own relationships, including inconvenient pregnancies, gender issues and fraud. In this parallel universe of fantasy and truth, the actors search for a way to compromise, without losing the thrill of pretending. Life, they discover, can be as ephemeral as theatre, unless they accept responsibility for their actions. Humorous, with a serious undertone, the book takes a sideways look at how these theatre practitioners think, behave and interact with each other and the community, on and off stage. Events change everyone, though strangely, pretending prevails…

400 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 9, 2012

About the author

Lyn Ferrand founded Turning Point Theatre Company and Buzzword Interactive Films. Both companies produced award winning theatre and film for training and to raise awareness of health and social issues. Working in association with a variety of voluntary and statutory agencies, over a period of 14 years, clients included The Crown Prosecution Service, The Devon and Cornwall Police, Lancashire County Council, the Scottish Mental Health Association, Rethink UK and Carers UK. Her film The Lost Child won the National Training Award in 2005.
Lyn became a carer for her husband in 2016. She took a break from writing, but is now, thanks to lots of support from family and Devon Carers, is hard at work on two new books and has just published a book of short stories for children.
You can read more about Lyn's past work as a theatre and film director and her current work as an author here - www.lynferrand.com