Cathy By Ali Taylor

Cathy By Ali Taylor 

This play is all about the housing crisis and how it effects Cathy and her daughter, it was originally published on the 13 of october 2016. 

We begin with Cathy being handed a Section 21 notice by her landlord, giving her less than a week to pay her due rent or find somewhere else to live. So begins the turmoil that leads Cathy and her dependant fifteen-year-old daughter Danielle from home to home to sofa to the unknown. They are taken from their home, to a ‘temporary’ room in Luton that ends up being their home for five months, then offered to leave their lives in London for a two bed apartment in Newcastle. Watching Cathy’s situation is hard-hitting and shocking; we know there are so many others in similar positions but we rarely consider how difficult it really is. 

We chose to do this play in a Brechtian style because it still relates to issues we face in today's society, and by breaking the forth wall the audience can really understand the messages we are trying to put through while also questioning our society and why it is what it is.