A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer (2018) Program

7 — 18 MAR

A POWERFUL PIECE OF CONCEPT ART...

A LIFE LESSON WE SHOULD ALL SEE – LIVERPOOL ECHO (UK)

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7 — 18 MAR MERLYN THEATRE Originally a co-production with the National Theatre in association with HOME Manchester

WRITTEN BY / Bryony Kimmings and Brian Lobel with Kirsty Housley DIRECTION / Kirsty Housley

ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN / Christina Cunningham

MUSIC / Tom Parkinson

ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGN / Paul Anderson

PERFORMERS / Eva Alexander Bryony Kimmings Gemma Storr Lottie Vallis Lara Veitch Elexi Walker

ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY / Lizzi Gee

SET & COSTUME DESIGN / Lucy Osborne CHOREOGRAPHY / Sarah Blanc

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LIGHTING DESIGN / Marec Joyce

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / Judith Dimant

SOUND DESIGN / Lewis Gibson

PRODUCER / Poppy Keeling

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Michal Keyamo

FINANCE MANAGER / Louise Wiggins

PRODUCTION MANAGER / Niall Black

ASSISTANT PRODUCER / Laura Rolinson

SOUND OPERATOR / Neil Dewar

COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER / Holly Foulds

STAGE MANAGERS / Osnat Koblenz Adam Chesnutt PROPS SUPERVISOR / Daisy Blower

CREATIVE LEARNING PRODUCER / Dina Mousawi

COSTUME SUPERVISOR / Lydia Hardiman

ADMIN ASSISTANT / Miška Groidlova

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Cover photography by Zan Wimberley. Production photography © Mark Douet

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ORIGINAL MUSICAL DIRECTOR / Marc Tritschler

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I HOPE THAT YOU CAN FEEL ITS CRACKED OPEN BEATING SEASON 2018

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A NOTE FROM THE CO-WRITER AND PERFORMER

BRYONY KIMMINGS: CRACKED OPEN BEATING HEART I hope that you can feel its cracked open beating heart. Lara and I lay our souls bare, let our mistakes and darkest moments radiate out into an auditorium with the hope that it somehow makes it okay to not be perfect, to be human and scared and out of control. With lots of laughter and songs to sweeten the medicine of course.

This show is the biggest labour of love I have ever known in my career making theatre. Four years in the making. Scores of wonderful doctors and patients. Some sad deaths.

Some huge revelations and life bumps along the way.

When you tackle something as big as cancer the chances are it will change you in some way. And I can safely say this show has changed me. Infinitely.

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I guess my hope is that it goes out into the world and changes others too. The aim for this show was to offer alternative stories of cancer. The media version is always survivorship, battles and heroes.

This sat badly with me, as a pacifist, as a feminist, as a common person.

This show is the true story of trying to write a guide that allows cancer to be hard and painful and lonely and shit. To allow cancer to rub up against other illness and disability, against race, against class.

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T’S BEEN NE OF HE MOST PLIFTING ND JOYOUS ERIODS OF Y LIFE SEASON 2018

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A NOTE FROM THE PRODUCER

JUDITH DIMANT: NO RETURN TO NORMAL Considering the subject matter, it’s been one of the most uplifting and joyous periods of my life.

After two years in the clear someone said to me, with slight impatience, that surely it was time to ‘move on’ from the cancer experience. I didn’t have cancer any more and so I should stop defining myself by the illness, or at least I should stop seeing myself in terms of having had cancer. It’s not that simple.

Anyone who has had cancer will tell you that once you’ve had the illness and maybe been through chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery—or some combination—you’re never the same again. Your view of the world is different, your attitude to life is different, your confidence in yourself and your body is significantly knocked.

Who knows when your body will let you down again? Even after the ‘all clear’ there is no return to ‘normal’.

Hopefully it will shed light on how someone might feel when they’re diagnosed with cancer—or really anything serious—and how that changes things forever. There are also some banging tunes and great dancing.

I was ‘lucky’ to get cancer at the same time I met the extraordinary performance artist Bryony Kimmings, who in turn introduced me to composer Tom Parkinson and writer/performer Brian Lobel. Together we have spent the last couple of years talking, researching and writing about cancer, and about illness and about how we humans cope with the struggle of ill health and possible death.

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It’s also been challenging. Along the way we’ve met some very sick people who have generously shared their stories of illness and hopelessness along with great humour to make A Pacifist’s Guide...

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In addition to Complicité Associates, the Company runs an award-winning Creative Learning and Participation programme.

Performance artist Bryony Kimmings was the inaugural Complicité Associate, and A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer was its first production. The next artists joining the Complicité Associates are The Scotsman Fringe First Award and The Stage Edinburgh Award for Best Ensemble winner, The Wardrobe Ensemble.

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FLEABAG 28 MAR – 22 APR Fleabag may seem over-sexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig themed café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.

The inspiration behind the ABC series of the same name, this is a blisteringly funny solo show from Phoebe Waller-Bridge (star of the Netflix series Crashing). We bring her award-winning show to our Melbourne International Comedy Festival program.

BY / Phoebe Waller-Bridge

DIRECTION & DRAMATURGY / Vicky Jones

PERFORMED BY / Maddie Rice

A DryWrite and Soho Theatre presentation in association with Malthouse Theatre.

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SCENE & HEARD

Over 50 patients, doctors and cancer care experts were interviewed to make this show.

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