Susan Hedworth

Susan Hedworth, teacher and support worker, is also a playwright (writing as Sue Saunders). Susan Hedworth takes an active and indipensible advisory part in helping RM Howe with her books.One of Susan’s latest works is a one-act play, Wordsworth’s Sister, for a cast of three women, based on the experiences of the older Dorothy Wordsworth, living at Rydal Mount near Grasmere, afflicted with dementia, but remembering her active days walking and climbing. She has also written a play, Mostra, about the NE composer Charles Avison and is working on a play about the life of Anne Frank’s father Otto, when he returned from Auschwitz.

Plays for schools include In Holland Stands a House, about Anne Frank, and Local Heroes, a collection of one-act plays on world myths and legends. Most recently, her play about young people caught up in the First World War – White Poppies – was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Sue has also collaborated with Tess Cosslett on two volumes of poetry – Angels of the North and Installations

Her brother, Michael Smith, violist and composer (1941-2009) regarded the Lake District as his second home. He wrote an oratorio based on Wordsworth’s Prelude which was premiered in 2009, and also many lyrical works with Cumbrian themes, such as Lingmell, Black Sail, Ennerdale and Watendlath (see www.mjsmith/eu) Susan shares his love of the Lake District and of music, and plays in the Cobweb Orchestra, which has a branch in Dalston.