Added to the gallery is a new backstage photo of Gemma for “The Children’s Monologues.” Featured in the Sunday Times magazine, here are some details about it:

The pictures were taken backstage at the Old Vic in London as the 17 actors performing in the Children’s Monologues waited to rehearse their individual pieces on stage with director Danny Boyle.

Each Monologue was adapted by professional playwrights from over 300 South African and Rwandan children’s testimonies collected by Dramatic Need. The actors had seen their individual monologue but had not read any of the original children’s stories. Some of these testimonies, written in childish writing on scraps of paper, are absolutely harrowing and make for very difficult reading. They contain terrible things, burdens that should never be carried by children. These actors where photographed before (as themselves, not in character) and then directly after reading the child’s testimony that inspired their monologue, so that an instant reaction was captured. These actors are not acting, they are just feeling what any human being would upon reading what these children have been through. As the Times put it: shaken up.

A wonderful new drawing by Heath of DrawnHere.com has also been added. Check it out by clicking the thumb: