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Review: Cassie and the Lights

A moving new play about love, loss and family – a promising GCSE choice says reviewer Alex Howarth.
 Cassie and the Lights by Alex Howarth

Cassie and the Lights is a touching new play, following three sisters as they go through the care system. The play is based on a true story, informed by interviews with children to accurately represent the emotional and logistical journey. It is a coming-of-age story examining what defines family and dealing with ambiguous grief.

Cassie and her sisters Kit and Tin frame the beginning of the play with an analogy of a trinary star system. They explain that this is when three stars travel together through space, but two of them are much closer together than the third, so they can all balance each other out as they soar through the cosmos.

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