By Aashiq
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA6qkQhiQf8
Available until: Unknown
Future Voices is an annual project run by Southwark Playhouse.
Playwrights spend eight months working with students aged 14-18, with the aim
of each student writing a short play. Usually, these plays are performed at the
Southwark Playhouse. This year, a certain virus had other ideas so the actors
filmed the plays at home, using Zoom and iPhones. The plays have been put on
youtube and on the Southwark Playhouse website (and I’m sure the last thing
they want is some actor/writer giving his opinion, but you just can’t shut me
up sometimes).
This first play is by Aimee Brown. The central character is
Francesca Rosa Brown, played by Jessica Hardwick. She’s at the local library
and she has a job to do. The lovely librarian (Eva Fontaine) wants to keep the
library quiet so everyone can concentrate, but that’s not always possible when
Francesca is there.
