Not quite sure whether to post here or start a new thread, but some of you might like to know
a) that my partner, Vanessa Rosenthal, wrote a very fine play about Edward Thomas called "Out In The Dark", which she also presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival back in the 90s and that, subsequently, it was broadcast by BBC Radio 4. It was a portrait drawing on his and his circle's words and his poems and used music as part of the recreation of memory.
b) that Vanessa has a new play "KAREN'S WAY: a kindertransport life" about the kindertransport survivor and poet Karen Gershon opening at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August this year and it is based on the same approach which served the story of Edward Thomas so well.
I might in any case start a Karen Gershon thread. She deserves rereading and reflection.
Best to all, Nigel
P.S. What a shame the biog. didn't win - especially against such a flimsy, I think, opponent.
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