Tania Foley RIP

Tania, as Jane Birch in Kate Glover's Fire & Phoenix

Though Tania Foley and I met but once, we had swapped messages on facebook about stuff for the Historia website.  In addition to her likeability as a correspondent, she was also an accomplished actor, and we greatly enjoyed her performances in a number of rôles in Fire & Phoenix at All Hallows by the Tower. 

That she should have died in her thirties of complications of pneumonia and blood clots in her lungs seems such a waste, particularly in the light of her having been shooed away from hospital, told that she'd pulled a muscle in her chest. A prolific facebook poster (I admit I had stopped following her onslaught of posts!), she was posting optimistic, sparky messages to the last.

She is a great loss to the performing arts, and to us all.