Musicals allow us to express in song what we could not have said in words
Rehearsals for A Song of Songs at the Park Theatre, London. Photo: Pamela Raith
An assumption about musicals is that they are just light-hearted fun. Writing a play with songs showed me that sometimes deeper emotions can be conveyed through music rather than in straight dialogue
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