I joined an amateur acting group in Larnaca in 2019. Our Tuesday evening workshops were a highlight of my week. We were all disheartened when denied our weekly in person improv workshops during the pandemic, so we decided to take them online and challenge ourselves to putting on a show. Six women, one play, one character, six phones cameras, zoom, a lot of energy and assorted skills was all we needed to produce a one-hour filmed play. The experience was incredible and unique in both process and outcome, and I am grateful to have been part of it.
In July 2020, we celebrated the culmination of four months of creative camaraderie at a glamorous outdoor screening of the filmed theatrical play we produced together, though apart, over the previous four months. This was our Hollywood moment, when we who had worked together virtually for months filming a play about a woman in isolation finally came together in the grand setting of Larnaca’s Pierides Museum for the world premier. A full capacity crowd gathered in the museum’s gorgeous garden to watch us on a huge screen as we reflected the struggle and strength of Sharon, the heroine of Franca Rame’s and Dario Fo’s ‘A Woman Alone’.
I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.