Sparrow: A Life in Six Acts

Des Ttoouli is second generation living in London, born to Cypriot parents. They are from the village of Akanthou, known as the village of teachers. She has been writing for children and adults for many years and is currently finishing a Masters in Writing for Performance at the University of Cambridge.

Her work 'Sparrow: A Life in Six Acts', to be read at Theatro Technis, was born out of her studies for the Masters. It follows six pivotal points in the life of Sparrow, from the death of her father when she was a teenager to the death of her mother almost forty years later.

Des has taken certain events and fictionalised them in order to make the work resonant and viscerally engaging.

The first monologue “Little Sparrow”, was produced as a short play at the Judith Wilson Studio in Cambridge to great success. She has followed up the work with five other monologues, hence, 'a life in six acts', and is hoping to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. She is currently adapting it into a TV series. She is collaborating with a director to make 'Little Sparrow' into a Short.

Des also writes poetry and has a memoir using her knowledge of Botany as inspiration and motifs.

Des is also a watercolour enthusiast, she sculpts and is a print-maker and works in a number of other mediums. She has had a number of shows of her artwork and co-curated The green Line project in Cyprus, taking renowned artists Anthony Gormly, Ian McLellan, Pavel Buchler and others with the intent of producing artwork to be exhibited on The Green Line and building Rapprochement between the two cultures in Cyprus.