Sarah is working on My Last Car, a wake for the petrol engine.
Sarah Woods is a playwright and campaigner, working primarily in the fields of climate change and social justice. She has written more than thirty plays, series, adaptations and drama-documentaries for BBC radio, including a new adaptation of The Borrowers and two original drama-documentaries about climate change: Getting to Zero and Getting to Four Degrees. Sarah also works in the theatre, with recent plays including The Thief of Baghdad, The Help, Box, Soap, Timon of Athens, Visible, Walking on Water, Hilda and a new version of Fantastic Mr Fox. As well as My Last Car, Sarah is also working on A Night with Errol Flynn, examining the twin compulsions of destruction and celebrity, and The Story of Water for the BBC.
My Last Car – a glimpse
We crashed (pardon the pun!) My Last Car's rehearsals for their first ever exhibition and performance at Warwick Arts Centre, 4-8 October 2011. Here's some snippets of what we saw......
My Last Car – Alan Dix, the man behind the wheel
Alan Dix, the man behind My Last Car, talks about the inspiration and themes of My Last Car as he prepares for its first exhibition and performances at Warwick Arts Centre in October 2011....
My Last Car – Clare’s car story
Everyone has a car story. We can't decide if Clare's is really scary or just proves that good Samaritans really do exist... ...
My Last Car
In My Last Car I have loved and lost, have shouted and whispered. I have taken great journeys to mysterious places like ASDA and the Far North. I have sat in My Last Car in the rain unable to get out until my favourite track has finished playing. I have picked up children from school,...
