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Cathy
Settled... Until suddenly you're not...
Forced out of London by spiralling living costs, Cathy finds herself in an unfamiliar town with no friends and no money; pushed to make choices she doesn't want to make...
Candid, poignant and intimate, Ali Taylor's play Cathy offers a timely reflection on the lives of those at the sharp end of economic austerity, faced with impossible choices and an uncertain future.
Inspired by Cathy Come Home, Ken Loach's pioneering television drama, Cathy was first produced in 2016 by Cardboard Citizens, a theatre company that makes work with and for homeless people, on a tour of the UK.
Forced out of London by spiralling living costs, Cathy finds herself in an unfamiliar town with no friends and no money; pushed to make choices she doesn't want to make...
Candid, poignant and intimate, Ali Taylor's play Cathy offers a timely reflection on the lives of those at the sharp end of economic austerity, faced with impossible choices and an uncertain future.
Inspired by Cathy Come Home, Ken Loach's pioneering television drama, Cathy was first produced in 2016 by Cardboard Citizens, a theatre company that makes work with and for homeless people, on a tour of the UK.
86 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2016
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June 3, 2023
An unusual play, commissioned by Cardboard Citizens, a UK group that makes theatre for, with and about the homeless. The premise was to update Ken Loach's 1966 film 'Cathy Come Home' to contemporary times, and the playwright interviewed many individuals to lend verisimilitude to the proceedings. It's a well thought out and effective play - but almost relentlessly bleak, although it does end on a slightly hopeful note.
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