Like a next level audiobook, our lunchtime Pages in Performance series is the perfect way to take a taste of what might be your next favourite book.

On Friday 17 May, actor Rosie Cassidy reads from Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries. Confessional, perplexing, and intimate, this form-breaking take on the memoir genre offers an abstract glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a celebrated author, collected over the course of ten years and organised alphabetically to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of a decade of living.

If you like what you hear, you can pick up your own copy at the onsite festival bookshop and join us for The A to Z of Sheila Heti on Friday 17 May at 18:30 where the author will be in conversation with literary critic Gillian Moore.

Rosie Cassidy is currently a first-year student at the Gaiety School of Acting. Rosie’s most recent work includes assistant directing a production of The Drowsy Chaperone and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, at the University of North Carolina. She was a featured extra in Netflix’s new film, The Piano Lesson. She was also assistant director for the Summer Broadway in Concert production, Summer Nights, at Chapel Hill School of Musical Arts. Some of Cassidy’s roles include Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, and Alice in The Addams Family.

Presented in partnership with the Gaiety School of Acting.