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Yolanda Ovide and Laoise Sweeney in Persephone
- Credit: Sèverine Howell-Meri
A new play to be staged in the Hoxton Trust Community Garden aims to bring people together after lockdown.
Persephone by Gianna Kiehl is about two strangers encountering grief and the complexity of emotional intimacy.
Kiehl wrote the play while self-isolating, as a way of expressing feelings of loneliness.
She told the Gazette: “Everyone has experienced loss and loneliness, and during isolation, we had to face ourselves. That s not always comfortable.
“I went through a hard place because I was trying to figure out what I wanted professionally. That s when I decided I m going to do my own play.
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