In Yorkshire, we are used to sharing our rural landscape with sheep – they are very much part of the scenery and a benign, companionable presence – but what would it be like to actually live among them? That is the premise for a quirky new play The Beauty of Being Herd which tours locally next month.
Created by Leeds-based actor, writer and theatre maker Ruth Berkoff, it tells the story of Hannah who has struggled to fit in all her life and doesn’t quite understand the rules that other people live by, so she decides to turn her back on her old life and to live as a sheep instead. It is Berkoff’s first solo theatre show and she describes it as “a show for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.” The production has evolved out of two different monologues and characters that Berkoff created.
It was amazing in terms of learning performance skills and that is where I learnt how to be on the stage and do theatre. Gaulier says that if something is not good you just have to ‘put it in the bin’ and say ‘thank you, goodbye’. What you learnt with him is that you constantly have to ask yourself ‘is the audience enjoying this?’ You are always trying to make things alive and beautiful and magical. It was a great experience – I really gained my confidence there as a performer and a writer.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
10 beauty products I'm buying ahead of Amazon’s spring sale next weekCredit cards and debit cards at the ready folks.
Read more »
Revolution Beauty selling mascara that makes lashes look 'so full'Revolution make-up fans have raved about a £9.99 mascara which makes lashes look 'fuller' and 'thicker'
Read more »
Inside Fern Britton’s beauty transformation at 66 – the diet that helped her shed 5 stone and a £16 prod...Inside Fern Britton’s beauty transformation – from the diet that helped her shed 5 stone, to her beauty secrets and buys
Read more »
Beauty ingredient squalene linked to hundreds of shark species at risk of extinction, says new researchDeepwater sharks and rays are slow to reproduce, meaning they're more at risk from fishing. Now, their decline is being linked to squalene.
Read more »
I was bullied at school because I’m 4ft 10 and often came home in tears but now I’m Britain’s shortest beau...I’m the first Miss Teen USA – how I aged gracefully as a former beauty queen
Read more »