St Frideswide Cures the Blind

While St Frideswide's legend - about the pursuit of a woman, blindness and healing - originates in the Middle Ages, my play 'St Frideswide Cures the Blind' is a piece of the modern world with mobile phones much in evidence, transcontinental air flight being part of the story, and the homeless people of present day Oxford playing an important part in it.

Central  it, though, is still a kind of blindness, and there is the suggestion is that saintliness, or idealism isn't that easy to live with.

After our 'scratch' production of the three plays in October 2011 (High Table, The Recluse and St Frideswide) , I looked again at all my characters. The two men, Gary, to be played by Kyran Pritchard, and Dan (Alex Babic) have now developed so that sympathy can be more evenly spread, and the play has a better balance, while Marie (Lucy Walters) retains a kind of commentator role, at the same time being a real character with a strong voice.