My three minute duologue, both roles performed and recorded by Martha Loader in her home during lockdown, was on East Suffolk /one radio every day from 31st January at 10.30 am and 2.30pm. I love shorts - theatre, film and prose and and love writing short forms. As opposed to uncovering everything for the audience or reader the economy of a short prompts curiosity and often gives a spin to something basic that may slip past our attention. For example, Short White Pleated, my 10 minute film (2002) investigates the use of garment as empowering talisman and what we will do to attain that power. The film had a particular appeal to the gay and trans communities and played at many international film festivals, premiering in Turin.
No photo of a rat to hand. The photo is of our local landscape, which hides many rodents, and is more beautiful than most sheds, garages and even most kitchens and patios.