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"Judy's my mom. It's an understatement to say she's a bit of a hippy. I mean who else but a New Ager calls their baby 'Philosophy Rainbow'? I try to go by 'Sophie'." Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls have been raised in Goa, San Francisco and Morroco at a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves. Then one day Sophie gets ill and the family has to return to Birmingham. Sophie and Calliope are introduced to a strange new world where meditation and tree-hugging are replaced with Maths homework and television. They're also introduced to Daphne: the grandmother that the girls have never met. And it's against this bewildering new backdrop - the normality she's always longed for - that Sophie must come to terms with her own mortality.

Cast/Performers

Imogen Doel (Sophie), Jayne Wisener (Calliope), Amanda Ryan (Judy), Jane Lowe (Daphne)

Creatives/Company

Author: Lucy Caldwell
Company: Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company
Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
Design: Colin Richmond
Lighting: Simon Bond
Sound: Dan Hoole