Yesterday was the final performance of Ellie’s play, “Middle Ground”, which she wrote and directed as part of her degree.  Based on a story that has been told and re-told many times by different people (including Shakespeare, amongst others), this was a meeting point of each variation.  The focus of the project was empathy, in that it was written and directed in such a way that there was no clear ‘bad guy’, and pretty much every character could be perceived as someone you could feel sorry for.  There were twists and turns, emotion and drama, and my music was the backdrop.

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