Flower Girls

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Flower Girls is a 2007 play by Richard Cameron. It was shown at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, the Drum Theatre in Plymouth, and the Hampstead Theatre in London, premiering in October 2007. The play is set in 1940 and 1965 in The Crippleage, Edgware, a home for disabled women. The play centres around six women, Sally, Alice and Lilly in 1940, and Mabel, Joan and Rose in 1965, the latter when men were admitted to the home.[1] The disabled women support themselves by selling silk flowers. Nicola Miles-Wildin portrayed the character of Alice.[2]

Lyn Gardner of The Guardian said of the play, "Richard Cameron's play, inspired by the women who lived there between the second world war and the mid-1960s, is an unashamedly old-fashioned tale of hidden lives. As he has shown before, Cameron has the knack of elevating the ordinary to the extraordinary and of finding the heartfelt among the mundane... It is a tale of ordinary heroism, of losses and gains, friendships and cruelties, and it is full of unbearable longing. The production for the disabled-led company Graeae needs much more fluidity, but there are some lovely performances here, as unshowy and open-hearted as the play itself."[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Richard Cameron's Flower Girls on tour". Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Flower Girls". BBC. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2012. 
  3. ↑ Gardner, Lyn (25 October 2007). "Flower Girls". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 August 2012. 

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