In Conversation With Natasha Langridge | In Memory of Leaves | Interview by Olivia Mitchell, Editor

Following on from Memoirs of a Tree, Natasha Langridge returns with, In Memory of Leaves. This monologue describes Natasha’s experience living in a block of flats on the Portobello Road council estate, which is being torn down by developers, and how all of her surroundings and green spaces are rapidly changing. The monologue also explores her work in Calais with the Occupy movement and the sadness people feel when they have to say goodbye to "home".

Natasha Langridge tells us about touring London on a canal boat with a tale of destruction and love, In Memory Of Leaves.

Meyer Whitworth Award-winning writer and performer Natasha Langridge tours In Memory Of Leaves around London this October. There's nothing unusual about that. Many shows are on tour around the capital. But she's taking her venue with her. And it floats.

Langridge performs her autobiographical one-woman play aboard the Fordham Gallery Barge, which docks with the production in three locations this autumn.

The Evening Standard

“In Lisa Goldman’s production there are scenes of tenderness and of violent fury. Yet while Shraddha is linguistically interesting, beneath the distinctive language is a straightforward story of forbidden love and its trials, not dissimilar to Romeo and Juliet... Shraddha has energy and some moments of real poetry, and, although at times soft where it might more credibly be bleak, it feels faithfully contemporary.”

Henry Hitchings, 05 November 2009