BWW catches up with Laura Horton to chat about bringing Breathless to the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Tell us a bit about Breathless.
Breathless is about Sophie, a woman in her late-thirties exploring long repressed sides of herself. But a secret she's keeping from those she loves, and even from herself, threatens to unravel it all, she has to make a choice about who or what she will give up.
What was the inspiration behind it?
Breathless is an exploration of the knife-edge of hoarding, from the joy to the addiction and suffocating shame. Based on my own experience of clothes hoarding. It's also about bisexual exploration at a later age, as something that's been repressed. It's a very personal piece of writing.
Why did you feel it was important to tell this story?
Narratives about hoarders are extreme in art and media. I think it's important to explore other stories and show people who are at various stages of hoarding behaviours. I hope that it might help audiences to see themselves in the work or learn about hoarding which is still very under-researched and stigmatised.
Who would you like to come and see it?
Ideally anyone over 12 years old! Particularly though people who have a troubled relationship with their things, anyone at a turning point wanting to change their life.
What would you like audiences to take away from Breathless?
Hope. I really want audiences to feel like change is possible. I'd love it if they laugh, are entertained, learn something new. I'm so excited to get this play on its feet.
Photo Credit: Dom Moore
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