Folk's unsung heroines " the sisters who saved English music
My new play Folk focuses on two Somerset sisters whose " uncredited " recall of traditional songs helped Cecil Sharp save the music from extinction. It's an ambivalent legacy My play began in a flash of inspiration, but it would take me 10 years to finish it. At one point I completely discarded it as a failed project, then Hampstead theatre's Roxana Silbert inspired me to go back. Covid interfered and the production …