Hitting Home lifts the lid off life in a children's home and reveals some very disturbed behaviour - jealousy, paranoia and violence - and that's just among the staff.
Hitting Home lifts the lid off life in a children's home and reveals some very disturbed behaviour - jealousy, paranoia and violence - and that's just among the staff.
City Limits: The humour and passion which the young actors find in their roles as disturbed teenagers is testimony to the strength of Woolf's writing... It is a sophisticated unpatronising piece of writing that does not preach any glib message. But more than this, Woolf's writing is sufficiently sharp to send the adults in the audience back to relive the confusion and uncertainties of their own adolescence.
Time Out: It's full of lively dialogue and wisescracks... It's a play about people, not a Guardian Editorial on welfare policy. It hits home without punching you in the face.
James' professional debut, Hitting Home was produced by Man in the Moon productions, and directed by David Gillies. It ran for four weeks and played to packed houses throughout. Cast included Claire Goose (one of her earliest roles) and Colin Tarrant.
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."