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October sees the arrival of Mental Health Awareness Week and, with one in four of us in the UK now living with a mental health condition*, there's no better time to raise awareness and eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness. Step forward Scarlett Curtis. Following the success of Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies),... Continue Reading →
“Why can’t I just be happy? What have I got to be sad about? I’m in the prime of my life...” An autobiographical play written by Koko Brown, GREY explores black women’s mental health, living with depression and the taboos surrounding it. Following the success of WHITE, a one-woman show about identity, Brown returns to... Continue Reading →
Following successful runs at both the Edinburgh Festival and Hope Theatre in 2018, Chalk Line Theatre’s debut production Testament, which explores suicide, loss and survivor’s guilt, has returned to the Hope in time to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week. After surviving a car accident in which his girlfriend Tess (Jessica Frances) died, Max (Nicholas... Continue Reading →
When I was eleven years old, my dad got up early one morning to get ready for work, and dropped down dead. I was in the next room and heard the whole thing – his collapse, my mum frantically calling for an ambulance, the paramedics trying to save him. He was fifty years old and... Continue Reading →
