The Girl who Wanted to be God
The pattern of youthful artistic brilliance being tragically cut short, particularly by suicide, has ensured apparently endless studies of artists such as Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath. The life has long since overtaken the work as the focus of interest; biographies proliferate but at least have the virtue of taking people back to that work.
In the case of Plath, this interest is all the more remarkable given that she is remembered for a mere handful of brilliant poems. Or perhaps she has simply come to stand for all the lost potential of tragically foreshortened lives. The dialogue is made up of extracts from Plath's letters, journals, prose writing and poems, charting her trajectory from brilliant scholar and poet to desperate mother, abandoned wife and despairing suicide.
Direction: Deborah Leiser-Moore
Assistant Direction/ Production Manager: Claire Wearne
Written by: Karen Corbett, Rosemary Johns and Brenda Palmer
Cast: Susan Bracewell, Karen Corbett, Rosemary Johns and Brenda Palmer
Lighting Design: Bron Pringle