Roz Brady and Ami Lee - Musicians

Portrait and interview - 1994

This photograph was taken when both Roz (on the left) and Ami played and worked together as Playne Jane.

Roz Brady and her family emigrated to Australia when she was six months old as her mother felt it would be the safest place on earth, far from the looming crisis in Cuba which she was convinced would destroy the western world.  Ten years later they returned, this time her mother fleeing from her own loneliness and a country where she found the women enmeshed in their own worlds of washing machines and babies!

Roz left inner city London in the late 80s and moved to Totnes to take up her place on a degree course in Theatre Arts at Dartington.  Whilst in London, she performed cabaret with The Black Theatre Co-operative.  She was also in the National Youth Theatre.  One of the memorable productions was Zigger-Zagger, an early play which examined the phenomenon of football hooliganism.

Since leaving college, she has been writing plays for young people in care, whether in prison, probation or otherwise.  As a member of Time in our hands (a Theatre in Education Company), rehearsals are shortly to begin on one of her plays in which she will be performing.

Roz sings and plays acoustic guitar and is presently working on an album of her own compositions for which she will soon be seeking a record label.

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Portrait and interview - 1994

Ami was born and bred in north-east London and left when she was eighteen to live and work on two Kibutzim in Israel, where she also studied Hebrew and Jewish texts.

She has always played the piano and sung, written her own songs and poetry, and been involved in various music and theatre groups.  Ami started on a theatre course at Dartington and then changed to the music degree course which she completed a year ago.

Since then, she has lived in Totnes but has been suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury, which has affected her piano playing and work.  She has maintained a positive attitude, learning from the challenges and limitations of this condition, and is determined to be able to play again.

Ami has been active this year in organising local women’s events such as the cabarets in March and July and has been involved in music using her own voice.

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