Posted by: Plicemn1
« on: April 01, 2008, 01:02:57 PM »Phaedra's Love is essentially a very black comedy about boredom and dissatisfaction. Release only comes with death and mayhem. The play's key line is its last: "Vultures - if only there had been more moments like this." I think there are parallels there with Sarah's life. All her (as with all great writers) work is intensely personal and I think that to understand the writer and her work it is worth thinking about her own experiences of religion, her family (particularly her father's job) her dangerously early success (and the reaction to it from the media) and her undimmed, untamed anger - at what precisely it is often hard to know? ..... after she died her agent Mel Kenyon described her death as 'existential'...... at the timee that struck me as idiotic. Now - with distance I think that is about right.
Drama is only worth persuing as a career if you are driven. But don't give up on the A level! Good luck.
Drama is only worth persuing as a career if you are driven. But don't give up on the A level! Good luck.