News: Immersive outdoor experience FeelPlay tackles mental health for adults through bouncy castles and ball pits

A brand-new concept in wellness, FeelPlay is the innovative new experience that invites audiences to play their way to improved mental health from Olivier award-winning immersive theatre creator Christopher Green (Tina C; Ida Barr; No Show, The Yard; Prurience, Southbank Centre, Guggenheim). The adult-only inflatable playground, which will be seen as part of three of... Continue Reading →

April 15, 2022 0

News: Polka Theatre offers free digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Workshops to schools

Polka may be closed but that hasn’t stopped their efforts to provide educational resources and entertainment for children during the pandemic. Addressing the impact of lockdown-living on emotional and mental health, the theatre has created a series of digital Mental Health and Wellbeing workshops to be freely accessed by schools, from Reception to Year 6.... Continue Reading →

March 8, 2021 0

News: Total Insight to provide mental health support and creative platforms for young people

Total Insight Theatre is continuing its incredible work providing theatre and support for young people with two new projects that provide platforms for young voices and support their mental health and wellbeing. My Mind Matters will allow young people to explore their creativity through filmmaking and to reflect on and share their experiences of the... Continue Reading →

September 3, 2020 0

News: Touching The Void West End and Samaritans to host panel on mental health wellbeing

The critically acclaimed production of Touching The Void, currently running at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End, is set to host a pre-show event with Samaritans on 20th January, discussing mental wellbeing, resilience and weathering the storm. The line-up will include: Blogger Kat Farmer; Dylan Jones OBE, Editor of GQ and mountaineer... Continue Reading →

January 14, 2020 0

Review: It’s Not Ok to Feel Blue (and other lies), curated by Scarlett Curtis

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 →

October 10, 2019 0

Review: GREY, Ovalhouse

“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 →

July 3, 2019 0

Review: Testament, Hope Theatre

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 →

May 20, 2019 0

Grief, insomnia and my journey to recovery

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 →

October 10, 2018 0

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