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The musical that shows the true side of One Direction fans
Fangirl celebrates the obsessive followers of a band closely resembling One Direction. ‘I thought there was something in that extremity of feeling’, says its creator
Famous five … the original lineup of One Direction before Zayn’s traumatic departure Photograph: PictureGroup/Rex/ShutterstockBlake began to wonder: would the same language be used to describe a similar event in a more male-dominated world such as sport? Before Fangirls, Blake worked as an actor doing solo fringe shows, as well as developing her own plays as part of the young writers programme at London’s Royal Court theatre (she’d moved to England to study at Central School of Speech and Drama). The musical even gathered its own community of devotees who turned up, dressed in full costume, holding signs for the band True Connection (Heartbreak Nation’s original name in the Australian shows).
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