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Papi, how was it when Rhian came to you and said that they'd had a dream about you being in prison?The piece from SoreSlap Theatre will run at the Newcastle upon Tyne venue from 15 November – 3 December 2022. Taking that negative and turning it into a positive, in this current climate it’s important,” O’Gorman told the Irish Post. Rhian, you spoke to me the other day about not having to give the audience a sense of a conclusion or happy ending. I read the positivity, instead, throughout, in that connection between the characters. That will always be imperfect where human beings are involved. In the show, this was beautifully underpinned by physical theatre. Papi: Marshal [choreographer Marshal Siziba] came in to choreograph the more "dance-y" parts of the show. He was a great help and he came in with his own ideas. Together, we worked to make it more physical.

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Most boarding houses were ran by single women, often middle aged or elderly widows, who were trying to make ends meet. It’s perfectly understandable that they would be choosy about who they let rooms to.Papi: Because they won't have seen anything like it before. In some shape or form, it might change their lives. Papi: We've been doing that since we met. When doing spoken word poetry, Rhian spoke about sexuality and being a woman, and I about race, so we intertwined them with each other. I don't like it when people compare oppressions - it doesn't work like that.