The more you look at this landscape ... the more you can feel it, looking back at you.
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DEBORAH CURTIS WRITER
Writer, theatre director and author based in East Anglia
As a writer, theatre maker, film-maker and story maker, I take my inspiration from the landscape, people and places of the Fens.
This region inspires a great deal of my work.
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Flat, brooding under vast skies, with horizons stretching into infinity, the place has its own unique atmosphere.
This is a harsh and haunted place. Poverty has walked hand-in-hand with the people here since time began.
Perhaps that's why Fen folk clung to the old ways for so long.
Putting their faith in folk magic, home remedies, and of course, the white blooming opium poppy.
Fen folk are still a race apart. Proud, independent, and famously pig-headed!
They don't call them 'Fen Tigers' for nothing. But make a friend of one of them, and you'll have a friend for life.
The lilting, sing-song Fen accent is becoming rarer these days.
A reminder of the time when this part of England was ruled by the Viking Danes.
And the old dialect words are becoming rarer, too. Diluted by the influence of TV and the ever-widening spread of Estuarine English.
You can still hear traces of it now though, in goo, froze, frit, bor, and hum.
And the Danes have left their mark in place names such as Toft.
In spite of all the changes to this region I still find the people and places an endless source of inspiration.
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CONTACT
thefieldtheatregroup@hotmail.co.uk
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Deborah Curtis Writer
Field Theatre Group
Littleport Riot 200
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BOOKS
THE LITTLEPORT BUTTON TREE
July 2018
The result of a 6 month Heritage Lottery Funded community memory gathering project.
I am very proud to have been the compiler, editor and designer of this book.
Contains the remarkable stories of ordinary people. Stories of mothers, sisters, fathers and children: tales of love and loss, homelessness, and ordinary everyday acts of bravery.
From the soldier who was shot seven times in WW1, to the mother from the slums of London who rose to the very top of her profession.
A selection of stories contributed by the community. Featuring beautiful images of buttons and badges, all with a very special significance.
£7.50
Available from: thefieldtheatregroup@hotmail.co.uk
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