Christina Care

Jan 7, 2024 | christinacare.medium.com | Christina Care

‘I’ve done it,’ my partner declared. ‘I’ve solved writing. No more writing.’This is a joke between us. Facing down the struggle of a blank page day after day, we come to the end of our writing session and declare that we’ve cracked it. We wrote, and we’ve solved writing forever. It’s our kind of black humour: we know the work is never done. The writing is never really over. Tomorrow, the blank page will haunt us again. This is what it means to live as a creative.

Nov 29, 2023 | litromagazine.com | Christina Care |Art History

10 minute read. Our kind came from the sea. Webbed hands gripped the smoothed rock. The softened wood of the pier fractured in our fingers. Our taut forearms were strong from life beneath. We dragged our blue-tinged bodies up, scaled – or perhaps furred, with algae – shaking tangled kelp from our hair. And in our blood, the song that drags a man to his grave. So my mother told me. And her mother told her. It’s just a story.

Sep 8, 2023 | londontheatre1.com | Christina Care

A man and a woman meet in a pub for their very first date. She’s uncomfortable and challenging right from the outset, and he’s kind of a bore. It’s an awkward vibe – and if you’ve been on a first date with someone you hardly know, you know exactly what that’s like. This is where Miriam Battye’s Strategic Love Play begins its unrelenting course. Modern dating is a subject that horrifies and fascinates in equal measure – but this play is also about so much more.

Feb 23, 2023 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Alan Fitter |Christina Care |James Evans |Terry Eastham

As Can’t Wait To Leave begins, Ryan is sitting in a hospital waiting room. He looks bemused and a little traumatised as babies cry in the background. What’s happened to Ryan to bring him there? Is he waiting to be seen? Is he waiting for someone else? Ryan stands and addresses the audience and proceeds to take us on the journey that has brought him to a cold, unwelcoming hospital waiting room.

Feb 7, 2023 | londontheatre1.com | Christina Care

Stories about gender non-conforming people have largely been left out of the historical canon. Linck & Mulhahn is a play that sets out to shed new light on such experiences, offering them a place in our understanding of human history.