Never Cry / Cold Noodles, formerly the Rom-Com Re-Writing Cafe was a collective attempt to rewrite PS, I Love You, through a series of undisceplined re-writing workshops took place under the cover of night during lockdown 1. Using rapid response rewriting exercises, a group of brave and lonely lovers gathered over youtube livestream and a shared google doc, to generate alternative scripts that think through the messy and excessive body in pop culture.
Holly (below) is a response from one of the workshop participants, translating a written script produced during a particularly dark, wt, and cold evening into a music video. You can watch it here.
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The re-writing workshops were based on a 503 page readction script, details here, which included dramatic readings, here.
Three google docs were produced over the course of these workshops, which you can read in full, and at your own risk
Excerpts
Holly (below) is a response from one of the workshop participants, translating a written script produced during a particularly dark, wt, and cold evening into a music video. You can watch it here.

The re-writing workshops were based on a 503 page readction script, details here, which included dramatic readings, here.
Three google docs were produced over the course of these workshops, which you can read in full, and at your own risk
Excerpts
an overwhelming
grief-thing knotting rope like pasta, wet and old on a shelf.
NEVER CRY. NEVERY CRY. Cold NOODLES.
comfortably across a glittering backstreet in Manchester in 1975.
“fill the ‘ole!”
“What?”
“fill the ‘ole!”
Everything should be
normal. I’m here sucka.
Did she ever take care? Would she ever?
I'm not sure what that means - love.
It's worth just taking a... breath
“Well, get ur cock out then luv”




