England 67

Listen to England 67, a woman in her 50s from Beckenham, Kent, in southeast England. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 50s

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1954

PLACE OF BIRTH: Beckenham, Kent

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: white

OCCUPATION: writer and actor

EDUCATION: university

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject attended university in Leeds, Yorkshire.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject was spending a month in Melbourne, Australia, when she was recorded.

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RECORDED BY: Geraldine Cook

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So what I’m doing here in Melbourne is that I’m doing a four-week performance project at VCA, Victorian College of the Arts. And that’s really about, in a way it’s about adaptation. And so I’m using a Jim Craze novel and a David Malouf, and some David Malouf material, an Australian writer. But really it’s about how we generate sequence and work with non-script-based material for theatre people and look at the sort of strategies and tactics that we might use to interrogate a fictional piece or a piece of non-script-based material, and look at the kinds of things that we get from that, and then how we might make material with it, both textual and non-textual material. It’s similar to what I do in England. I mean I started as a theatre maker, um, in Leeds. I did, um, English degree at Leeds, and then I’ve also taught a lot in universities, but I’m also a critical writer. I write plays, I write fiction, and I’ve just written a novel. And um and I founded a journal called “Performance Research.” So I write critical stuff and *also, um, *you know, theatre.
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TRANSCRIBED BY: Kevin Flynn

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 31/08/2007

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