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[Eerie music with a contemporary beat underscores]
Sean: There's several reasons for doing Herons, (erm) the first one and simplest, in a way, is just I've
always really loved the play. I saw the original production and it really blew me away.
I didn't know Simon personally then, and it was my first experience of his writing
and I just, the sort of truth, beauty, horror of the writing really stuck with me.
It also feels very Lyric. In that it focuses on the experience and the growth of young
people in a, in a particular situation. I suppose you could look back over the
last five or six years with Punk Rock, a different play of Simon's that deals with
young people from different social world, that share some of those themes.
And also, Mogadishu, Vivienne Franzman's play that came from Manchester here. Both of those plays
had real resonance. And I suppose also plays like Saved, and to a degree Blasted. So there's been a theme
of plays through here, through the Lyric in the last five or six years - of plays that
have young people at their heart. That are provocative, and challenging, and also
can really breathe on our bigger stage.