by Alice Nutter My Dad cleared out a concentration camp at the end of WW2. My sister thinks it was Buchenwald, but it was more likely Bergen-Belsen. I know his regiment, the East Lancashire, was involved in its liberation. A bottom of the ladder private, he wasn’t prepared. They told my Dad that the whole operation would take two weeks. Six … [Read more...] about The Importance of Stories
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Alice Nutter’s Intro to SNOW IN JULY
I was talking to Eileen O'Brien who played Marjorie, the elderly but capable of change racist, in my play Foxes, and Eileen was lamenting the lack of decent roles for older women. Something clicked and I resolved to have a go at something where the lead actor was other sixty-five and not over the hill. I always knew I was someday going to write about the asbestos poisoning … [Read more...] about Alice Nutter’s Intro to SNOW IN JULY
Snow in July
A Radio Play by Alice Nutter Characters Eileen, 68 Maurice, 71 Fred, 69 Doctor Wilson, mid 40's James Fryer, 73 Constable Marks, late 30's Throughout this play Maurice and James Fryer have difficulty breathing, even when not specified in the directions. Kitchen - 30's semi - early evening SFX of kettle being filled and Eileen … [Read more...] about Snow in July
Friends, Family, Sex, and Archaeology
by Alice Nutter When I was a kid I was ashamed of my family with its silences, violence and weird little wars. I wanted to be normal, have the life that I thought other kids at school had. Then I grew up and realised that fucked up families are the norm. The kids whose greatest sorrow was a rabbit or a grandparent dying were the weird ones; the majority of us … [Read more...] about Friends, Family, Sex, and Archaeology
Just Do It
by Alice Nutter Writing is confidence, that's what a writer friend told me just after I had stopped being in the pop band, Chumbawamba, to sit down and write every day. But if you are working class and left school with two not very good O Levels (neither of them in English) then having the sheer bloody gall to believe you can write has got to come from somewhere. … [Read more...] about Just Do It