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I could not believe my luck when I heard that I had the chance to take part in a play which had been commissioned by College and had never been performed before. When I came back early from the summer holidays to rehearse in the PAC with the other 31 cast members, I found that Dr Bratten and Miss Delaney had been given quite a free rein, by the playwright Sharman Macdonald, to make changes to the way the very difficult script was structured, which allowed them, and the cast, to have a real voice in bringing the play to life for the first time. The construction of the play shows the extraordinary circumstances of the African-American singer Paul Robeson inspiring women from the “Backies”, the slums of Dundee (for whom the highlight of the month was meeting men and drinking after receiving their wages) to join the freedom fighters of the Spanish Civil War. Although it was a challenge for us to transform ourselves into women “roaring fou’ with drink” and revolutionaries, characters as far from the CLC stereotype as you could imagine, the solidarity of the women in the play was reflected in the relationships we formed during the production. It felt exhilarating not only to bring to life a little known piece of history, but also to go into the realms of theatrical annals ourselves as the original company on Wikipedia!
Madison Briggs (SFC1)
Article Created 15/09/2010