Alex Carr and Florence King helped found Old Fruit Jar Productions in 2019 Curiously
Alex Carr and Florence King are two establishing members of Old Fruit Jar Productions. It was founded in 2019 by the pair, along with four others they had met while working on This Girl - a play about Cynthia Lennon, John Lennon's first wife - in Liverpool.
Alex said they all wanted to stay in the north west, a "melting pot for creatives", but opportunities were hard to come by. He said: "If you're from a working class background and from the north, it's almost impossible to get an actual job in the industry. "We had a lot of support for how we represented mental health. That was the moment where I thought 'we've got something here, we need to commit to it'".
"The joy with Shakespeare is that you can set it wherever you like. We chose an 1980s party island, Club Tropicana Ibiza style. We had a bar on stage, everyone's in swimming trunks." Alex, who is originally from Liverpool city centre, said that they deliberately pick tales that tackle pre-existing views on a range of subjects. Their upcoming production, The Incident Room, will be performed at the Black-E on Great George Street. It adapted from a book of the same name centred around the police hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
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