Egle Oddo and Anne Charnock

Title: "The Woman Steps Out"

Egle Oddo and Anne Charnock have collaborated to produce a piece of text that transplants a story from Berlin to Salford. Egle told the story from memory to Anne, who then re-wrote the tale with a local setting. In fact, the true origin of the story is a poem by Bertolt Brecht and is set in Berlin during World War II (The Shopper, 1938).
The new text is ‘misplaced’ in several ways. Not only is the setting different to the original, but the story changes in shape and emphasis because it is based on a telling of the story rather than the reading of the poem.
When the new text was complete, Egle recited the Bertolt Brecht poem in English, reading from the Italian translation in her possession.