Heroine (NHB Modern Plays)

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Jordan Alexandra as Guinevere, Ceinwyn's closest friend and Arthur's future wife. She is a hard, ambitious woman who craves power and high social status. [13]

Lavisha is busy. School work and caring for Mum are her priorities. Period. Of course, she cares about the planet but from where she’s standing it seems like posh people have got that one covered. Nessah Muthy is a multi-award-winning, two times Writer’s Guild-nominated, writer for stage and screen. Nessah is a multi-award winning writer for stage and screen. She has worked with a number of leading theatres and arts organisations including the Royal Court, Punchdrunk, National Youth Theatre, Cardboard Citizens, HighTide, Kali Theatre, Theatre Centre, Iris Theatre, Cloakroom Theatre, the King’s Head Theatre and the Gate Theatre/Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has twice been nominated for a Writer’s Guild Award.Muthy’s dramatisation… is touching and emotionally challenging -an excellent piece of thought-provoking theatre’ There’s never enough time when you’re having to choose between steak dinners and vegan food bank vouchers, staying home for evening face mask rituals and wanting to save the world before it’s too late. Geraghty builds a brilliant rapport with the children, who are soon anxious to help her in any way possible. There’s a certain sense of mischief that only grandparents and grandchildren share, which Small Wonders taps into quite brilliantly. Eventually, after “thinking big”, we dive headfirst into one of Nanny’s miniature creations and explore a fantasy forest. To say much more would spoil the fun but there are surprises nestling in every corner. At one point, Qeiva pulls on a vine to unleash a canopy of stars, all while munching on a biscuit. I’ve never seen her so happy at the theatre. In its first iteration, Model Behaviour was a stage show. Knowles took it to Edinburgh in 2018, at which point she says it “grew legs and started leading its own life”. She has been developing it for television with Carnival Films, producer of Downton Abbey, since February. But what adds another layer of glitter to this already sparkling show, is that it treats its child audience with respect. So that when the big issues arise, they are not shied away from.

Nessah Muthy is a multi-award-winning, three times Writer’s Guild nominated, writer for screen and stage. One day the façade finally fell, it all got too much and at a health visitor appointment I fully broke down. The health visitor was supportive as was my GP, but in the end I said I just think I need to go to A&E. From here my local mental health crisis team took over, they came out every day, twice a day, and they were amazing. Knowing that someone else was coming was so reassuring. Family members and friends were also hugely supportive, they sat with me, effectively on suicide watch. Theatre includes: Electric Rosary – Bruntwood Prize Judges’ Award; Astronauts of Hartlepool – VAULT Outstanding New Work Award (VAULT Festival); The Dogs of War – OffWestEnd Award for Most Promising New Playwright (Old Red Lion Theatre). Audio Dramas include writing for the world of Doctor Who and Torchwood. Tim has had readings with National Theatre Studio, Orange Tree Theatre, Paines Plough and Manhattan Theater Company. His weird fiction podcast North West Footwear Database was featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Tim was also the recipient of the Channel 4 Playwright bursary with Pentabus Theatre Company. Theatre includes: The Effect (English Theatre Frankfurt); The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree); Oor Wullie (Dundee Rep/UK Tour); Variations (NT Connections); Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse); Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre/Yellow Earth/Tamasha); Describe the Night (Hampstead Theatre); In Event of Moone Disaster (Theatre 503); Cosmic Scallies (Royal Exchange, Manchester/Graeae); Moth (Hope Mill Theatre); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Scarlet, The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse); Adding Machine: A Musical (Finborough Theatre). Film includes: Pretending – Orla Gartland Music Video, I Wonder Why – Joesef Music Video.Arthur and the tribe kings enter peace talks. Arthur suggests that as a show of faith, he marry Gorfydd's daughter, Ceinwyn. She is horrified by the news. Arthur and Derfel travel to Powys and rest for the night by a lake. Arthur meets Guinevere, Ceinwyn's lady-in-waiting, while travelling. What I love about writing is thinking up insane things that can come out of characters’ mouths,” he says. “I’m into [writing] wonderful people that embody life and all of the moral questions and quandaries that we’re all trying to figure out.” As the two women disagree on how to care for Betty, we learn a lot about their life together, how Alyssa ended up in prison, why Theresa is suspicious of her, but at the same time we also see the effects that dementia can have on a person. Gemma tells Michael that she can't carry on looking after Glory as it would be illegal, but Michael suggests they carry on secretly. Later, he recommends Gemma's services to Daniel for Bertie.

For theatre, Nessah is currently under commission to the Young Vic, Actors Touring Company (ATC), National Youth Theatre, Theatre Centre, The Brit School, Fuel, COMMON, Boundless Theatre and English Touring Theatre (ETT). After plying her trade and gaining valuable experience in writers’ rooms for several high-profi le series, Nessah Muthy has secured her own show with Channel 5 and Story Films,The Hunted. Eccleshare is currently being pulled in the direction of the latter, however. He has just penned an episode of Criminal Record, an upcoming Apple TV+ crime drama starring Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo.She began her career in the 1980s as an actress with the theatre company Monstrous Regiment. As a feminist she's fascinated by the control issues around food and body image. "In the Victorian age women were policed over their sexuality; by the 1960s sex was OK, so they had to find something else to police you about." This is Imaginate’s 30th year of children’s theatre festivals, and I have been to shows in nearly every one of them. But it is many years since I saw a show that so thoroughly took my imagination out, dusted it off, carefully sprinkled it with fairy dust – and then set it ablaze!