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Raczka also suggests that sometimes the bond between sisters can be overly idealised in fiction as in life. \u201cThere can be a tendency to romanticise sisters, which can make you feel bad if you\u2019re not close.\u201d This is something playwright Chloe Moss explores in her new play, Run Sister Run, a co-production with Sheffield Theatre and touring theatre company Paines Plough, about two sisters whose lives have taken very different paths. Moss was interested in the idea of trauma, and how it can twist a relationship \u2013 \u201chow it can unite you or drive you apart\u201d.<\/p>\n
The sisters in her play, Chloe and Ursula, were close once but have grown apart, and barely spoken in years. Moss was keen to explore what happens when two people with a shared past are forced in different directions; the play spans 40 years, and shifts backwards and forwards in time, exploring their memories of their childhood. \u201cThe sisters share things that only the two of them will ever understand,\u201d Moss says. \u201cEven if you don\u2019t get on, that shared past is still there. You still know things that no one else will know about your childhood. So it\u2019s especially poignant if that fractures as adults.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like Raczka, Moss has always enjoyed writing about female relationships, so writing about sisters was a logical leap. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like writing complicated men, but I enjoy putting women centre stage. You don\u2019t see enough women who aren\u2019t attached to a man\u2019s story. We\u2019re overrun with that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moss adds that she doesn\u2019t have a sister herself. \u201cI wonder whether I would have written it if I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
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