A FORMER Bolton woman has penned a play -- from her sick bed.
Talented Louise Barrett, 26, wrote her first play during three months convalescence after an operation.
The former Cannon Slade Pupil, who used to live in Harpers Lane, Smithills, has had rave reviews since her production went on tour.
She's a teacher of performing arts at Yeovil College in Somerset, and her one-act play has been shown at a number of theatres, including the Old Vic Theatre in Bristol and is set go to London in August.
She wrote, directed and produced Gift Box, a play about five women, described by one critic as "packed with humour and deep emotion".
Proud grandad Jack Barrett, 86, of Westgate Avenue, Bolton, said: "It is wonderful for her. I am really overjoyed."
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