THE actor/playwright Alice Christina-Corrigan hails from a working-class background and is, as she puts it, “the only art person” in her family.

Like many with such profiles, Alice will have had to explain her arty explorations to kith and kin who are not readily in the know. This takes energy and imagination. It’s a good practice ground. Elucidation itself becomes an area of interest for theatre-makers whose aim is breadth of reach.
 
Significantly, my interviewee thinks there are too many revivals of “safe” repertory plays and we agree that there are compelling possibilities for generating new audiences by airing new work that is made in new ways.

Christina-Corrigan’s current play Fade has been realised via research and development at The Lowry and devised through experiment hosted by Theatre Deli in Sheffield, where theatrical elements of sound, visual language, movement, and script became separately examined and synthesised anew.