Fear and Hope
By Anna Jordan
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Little did I know that voice would be one I never would forget as I would soon discover who this person was and I would be terrorized on a daily basis.
After many years of suffering in silence, my weight dropping to a life threatening four stone I spoke out.
Only in my eyes that was a mistakeas now my whole familys lives will never be the same again.
Anna Jordan
Anna Jordan's play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014), Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014), Closer To God (Best Play and Audience Award at the Offcut Festival, 2009) and Just For Fun – Totally Random (Best New Writing at the Lost One Act Festival, 2009). As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed as part of the 2013 Connections Festival. She is Artistic Director of Without a Paddle Theatre, Associate Director at Theatre503, London, and teaches acting and playwriting.
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Fear and Hope - Anna Jordan
Copyright © 2011 by Anna Jordan.
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ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4568-9112-1
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I was born in the nineteen sixties in North Yorkshire in the North East of England.
I come from a large family with seven siblings this was a pretty typical situation during this time, we lived in a relatively small three bedroomed house with a set of bunk beds in our bedrooms. There were 2 girls each sharing a bunk topping and tailing and the same with the boys in their room. We were a close family and remain so to this day. We each had our arguments growing up but that’s pretty typical with large families.
We were brought up in a small community which consisted of mostly catholic families. We were made to go to church every week at least twice and we were quizzed at home after the service and at school on a Monday morning to make sure we had actually attended the services. We were asked what colour the priests robes were, what was mentioned in the service and even what hymns were sang.
We didn’t have much growing up and neither did a lot of families in the area but, we were loved, always clean and well fed.
We were raised to respect older people and call them by their last name like Mr. Jones or Mrs. Smith
My mum had all of us one after another a few of us were not even a year apart, so we all grew up together
There were four girls and four boys and mum and dad.
Our life was very regimented and hectic. We were all given chores to do, mine included ironing for the whole family, all ten of us and its strange to think that I enjoy ironing to this day.
All of us children also