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It's 25 years since the Angel first flew at the Mark Taper Forum so this is blog 1 of 2 on 'Angels and me' of sorts to 'celebrate'  Two years ago this week I was doing this: Throwing pennies into Bethesda to celebrate the end of the PhD   Making peace with the Angel. As the caption says, I’d always sworn that once the PhD was done and dusted I was going to that Angel to mark it somehow. (I still kind of wish I’d thrown the whole damn thing in there). And while that milestone was important to me, it also brings up some important things related to location, and physical attachment to the play. It wasn't just that I'd finished, but I marked that by interacting with the 'real world' part of the fictional world my head lived in for so long. And what's more it's a place I keep going back to, keep re-enacting that physical expression of the fictional.  “It’s my favourite place in New York City, no in the whole Uni

I often get asked 'why' just in life 'why' but in terms of this work, 'Why this play?' or 'Why so much dedication to it?'. It either comes with incredulity from someone who doesn't rate the play