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Me & Ted Hughes
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In 1983, I left my husband, my home, my friends, my family and my country to live with my lover, an artist from Toronto. In the months while waiting for his divorce to come through, we produced a show there, the first Canadian production of LETTERS HOME, by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. It was the story of Sylvia Plath's life from 1950 to 1963, when she committed suicide.
In this production, I performed the role of Sylvia, who was 31 when she died. A week after the show closed at The Adelaide Court Theatre in Toronto, Ted Hughes, Sylvia's husband at the time of her death, now the Poet Laureate of England, was the guest of honour at the 5th International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront. At this event, with hundreds of fans in line to get his autograph, I am somehow sitting next to him.
How did it happen, after this spectacular coincidence, that Ted Hughes, in an auditorium full of fans, wrote a poem for me on the back of a ticket? This is the story of that night. Of that meeting. Of that poem.
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Manage episode 312990755 series 3255166
In 1983, I left my husband, my home, my friends, my family and my country to live with my lover, an artist from Toronto. In the months while waiting for his divorce to come through, we produced a show there, the first Canadian production of LETTERS HOME, by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. It was the story of Sylvia Plath's life from 1950 to 1963, when she committed suicide.
In this production, I performed the role of Sylvia, who was 31 when she died. A week after the show closed at The Adelaide Court Theatre in Toronto, Ted Hughes, Sylvia's husband at the time of her death, now the Poet Laureate of England, was the guest of honour at the 5th International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront. At this event, with hundreds of fans in line to get his autograph, I am somehow sitting next to him.
How did it happen, after this spectacular coincidence, that Ted Hughes, in an auditorium full of fans, wrote a poem for me on the back of a ticket? This is the story of that night. Of that meeting. Of that poem.
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