<p>Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.<br><br>When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham - a strange new world where meditation and tree-hugging are replaced with maths homework and TV and the grandmother they have never met. And it''s against this bewildering new backdrop - the normality she''s always longed for - that Sophie must come to terms with her mortality.<br><br>Lucy Caldwell''s <i>Notes to Future Self</i> opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in February 2011.</p>