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HEATHER — Thomas Eccleshare’s story about story-telling — charts the power both of the narratives that we create and those that we tell about ourselves.
It's also an exploration of all the assumptions made in tracking back from fictional heroine to author but, perhaps most powerfully, it's a play that asks us who is allowed to tell what stories and what their price is.
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