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It's the hottest day of the year, 1976, and the Webb girls gather at the Seaview Luxury Guesthouse and Spa
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as their mother Veronica lays upstairs dying. My character Jill, Ophelia's character Ruby and Gloria
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who are waiting for their fourth sister Joan to arrive. They haven't seen Joan for very many years
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The play is set in Blackpool in over two periods of time
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We go between finding out what happened to the younger sisters in the 50s
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It is the beginning of the end of the heyday of Blackpool, which would be comparable to, you know, it was the Vegas of England and Europe
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And then seeing when they all reunite in the 70s. I would say that the play is also about family folklore
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and how each member of a family remember the history of that family differently
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All of them being true, yet none of them being the same. The music sort of takes you through this journey
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of like these rich, complex, intergenerational dynamics and you think you know where the play's going and you don't
