Runcorn actress Jennifer Tan returns home to The Brindley with Fuse Theatre

Feb 11 2010 Flintshire Chronicle

AN ACTRESS raised in Runcorn is returning to her home town to perform in a play about extremism.

In Not In My Name Jennifer Tan plays two characters – a police officer and a girl caught up in a bomb attack.

Fuse, the theatre company behind the play, describes it as a ‘bold, challenging play that lets young people explore issues around terrorism and extremism’.

The play follows the events of a terror attack as seen by a group of young people. At the end an interactive forum lets the audience ‘rewind’ the play and discuss alternative courses of action.

Jennifer, a former Helsby High and Oxford School of Drama student, will be performing a couple of hundred yards from where she developed a taste for the stage.

She said: “I used to do youth theatre in the auditorium in Runcorn Library and getting into acting was a long road from when I played a spider in our infant school play!”

The play runs from February 23-27 and tickets are free. For details, call 0151 708 0877 or The Brindley box office on 0151 907 8360.