January 1st 2012, I was in Oxford at Rachel’s house, having just celebrated New Years we started work on a project aimed for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. We began to think about what we wanted to do; we had nothing. We both knew roughly what style of theatre we wanted to create but were a bit lost on how to begin. Taking a bit of inspiration from Kneehigh’s portrayal of Don Juan as Don John in 2008, we looked for legends, myths and stories that could be retold. We spent some time looking at Casanova but he didn’t quite grab us enough. We weren’t really getting anywhere. The next day we spoke to Rachel’s mum (Carey) about how we were getting on and she suggested the story of Mark Kennedy. Great! We both knew and liked the story and thought it would work really well. We did hesitate slightly as we didn’t want to steal Carey’s idea (something she was using herself for a writing course) but she encouraged us to do it and so we did...
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