Writing the play

Our play started as a very simple idea: what is the true price of fame and fortune? Do we ever get to see this reality or is it hidden away? Through discussions, improvisation and more than a bit of luck, that idea went onto become "Life's Witness".

Our work seemed to connect with audiences and there was a genuine buzz around it. We knew that in order to take this play further, we needed to made it longer, so that it could be a stand alone piece.  The question was, how do we make this play longer?
We decided that the key to making the play better, was to spend time on our existing four characters. To do this we wanted to work to build up their history, personalities and relationships. No story is ever completely black and white and no character completely good or bad. This ambiguity was our stepping off point.

And so the writing began! Over February and March, the script started to be developed. Some days there would be no progress, sometimes there would be a sudden idea to help push the story forward. Sometimes what was written was good, sometimes it was terrible.
But slowly, bit by bit, the script took shape. The script went through about 15 rewrites before we started to consider it ready for submission to the festival. Hopefully we have managed to keep what audiences liked and our additions and changes have made a better, more rounded and ultimately more interesting play. Time will tell..........