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So much lies behind the simple word “fine” as Chichester-based actor and now playwright Lucy Hornak explores in a new play she has co-written. F.I.N.E. will be given a rehearsed reading in The Steven Pimlott Education and Rehearsal Building at Chichester Festival Theatre on Tuesday, February 27, with tickets £8 available at www.ticketsource.co.uk/hornak-mcmahon. It will also be at the Vic Arts Institute, Arundel on March 23.

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00:00 Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to

00:06 speak to the actress and now writer Lucy Hornack. Now Lucy, you have a play which is coming

00:11 to the Pimlock building at the Festival Theatre in February, a play which you've co-written,

00:16 a play called Fine. Now, just set the scene, because that word 'fine' contains so much,

00:21 doesn't it? Certainly in this context.

00:25 Fine is, well, you know, when you meet people, a lot of people say, 'How are you?' and they

00:30 just go, 'I'm fine.' And the play is about actually realising that a lot of people actually

00:36 aren't fine, they just sort of say that to kind of, you know, it's a generic word, isn't

00:40 it? 'I'm fine.' But deep down, are they really fine? And this is what my play is exploring

00:45 in this coffee morning.

00:47 So how does that work? It's set in a coffee morning, and what happens, without giving

00:51 away too much?

00:52 Yeah, okay. It's set in a coffee morning in Gloucestershire, and Sabby, who I play, Sabby,

00:58 is hosting this coffee morning. And she's getting everything ready, because she wants

01:01 everything to be fine, everything perfect. So she invites her friends round, and they

01:07 all sit around having coffee, and you suddenly realise that actually, although they're all

01:10 boasting about their lives and their children and everything, you realise that actually

01:14 they're not fine. Because what happens is, one of them, one of the guests is called Bibi,

01:20 and she's doing a psychotherapy training, and she actually confronts her friends and

01:25 says, 'Look, I'm sick of this coffee morning. You're all being completely fake. You're not

01:28 fine. You're all false. I want to know what, you know, I want to find out who you really

01:33 are and what's really going on for you.' That's in a nutshell.

01:37 That sounds fascinating. Now, this is a rehearsed reading, but effectively, you're acting. What's

01:41 the hope for the play generally? Presumably, it's going to be picked up.

01:46 I hope it's going to be picked up. I mean, I'm desperate to get a producer who says,

01:50 'Right, I'd like to produce this play,' and, you know, put it on as a proper, not a rehearsed

01:56 reading, but as a play with four women.

02:00 So this is a chance to see it then at the end of February. Which date in February is

02:04 it?

02:05 27th.

02:06 27th.

02:07 February, seven o'clock.

02:08 In the Pimlock building at the Festival Theatre. How do people get tickets? I know tickets

02:12 are going well, but should any be left? How do they get the tickets?

02:16 Ticket source.

02:17 Brilliant. Good.

02:18 Under 'fine'. 'Fine' as in f.i.n.e.

02:23 Brilliant. Well, good luck with that. Lovely to speak to you.

02:28 Lovely to speak to you. Thank you so much, Phil.

When fine doesn't mean fine - new play

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