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Dear killer hope you are well . . .
First class post: Caroline Nash as the federal pen pal Diane in From Me to 3792 at The Other RSC at the Station in Sutton Coldfield. A HOUSEWIFE at the gates of middle age and
unhappy at her lot who starts writing to a death row inmate in the
States after reading about him in the paper hardly seems a fun night in
the making. But
From Me to 3792 manages to be both
very funny and poignant as it explores the life of Diane, a bored Sutton
Coldfield housewife who finds her letters to her Texas killer, Chuck,
allow her to see over the edges of the rut she is living in. Diane is not looking for a long distance affair
but in the hands of actress Caroline Nash we start to learn what she is
looking for and what is missing from her becoming even more ordinary
life. Caroline, aged 40, now lives in Northampton but
learned her craft at Birmingham School of Speech and Drama (now BSA) in
2003. She said: “At the ripe old age of 33 I decided to
train as an actor. It was a one year post-grad course which was really
three years packed into one - which is what I wanted to do.”
Up to then she had worked in sales for Granada TV
were she had risen to area sales development manager - and has never
regretted the change in direction. The play was written for her by West Midlands
journalist David Hendon, who is probably better known for his writing
and broadcasting on snooker. She said: “It is an amazing piece of writing. You
would never have known it was written by a bloke. It is very clever and
lots of women have said they struggle to get their head round the fact a
man can get such an insight into womens' psyche. “It is a fabulous piece of writing. I worked with
him a couple of years before and he had me in mind when he wrote From
Me to 3792 which is quite a compliment. “It has every emotion in the book and I play all
the characters - not by running off and getting changed but by what I
say and the way I say them. It might be coming from a woman's mouth and
be a woman's thoughts but some men have said they end up staring at the
floor in case they get a bit emotional. It is jolly nice when you touch
someone like that.” The production went to Edinburgh in 2009 where it
had favourable reviews and is now on tour around the Midlands. Next week it is in fictional Diane's very real
home town when it appears at The Other RSC, the pub theatre at The
Station in Sutton Coldfield on Wednesday and Thursday before heading off
to Nottingham and Northampton. After that? Caroline said: David is writing something else - with two characters! It is very tiring doing a one woman play!" From Me to 3792 runs for 75 minutes and is at
the Other RSC at the Station Pub on Wednesday and Thursday November 3
&4. Tickets £6 in advance, £7 on the door. 0788 682 0535. Roger Clarke |
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