Feb 27, 2023
Charlie and Amita Parikh (The Circus Train) discuss how Amita's dancing and performing experiences influenced her work, her controversial decision to have her wheelchair-using heroine learn to walk, and the Theresienstadt Ghetto (concentration camp) where prisoners led a fairly cultured life.
'Ten Fun Facts About The Circus
Train' on Amita's website
The Night Ferry
Elizabeth Kenny
The Theresienstadt Ghetto
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Discussions
01:20 The inspiration behind the characters and
the theme of illusion
04:29 The circus itself and Amita's dancing
experience
07:01 Real travelling circuses of the time
08:53 Getting the balance between magic and
reality
09:22 The original drafts
11:47 Back to the train aspect
13:37 The decision to have Lena learning to walk
and the historical medical context for it
18:35 The Theresienstadt Ghetto
22:20 Horace!
26:31 About another book Amita has written (not
published), her reaction to getting an agent, and her upcoming
second book
Photograph credit: Helen Tansey