“Living, Dying, Living” North Devon Hospice Conference - Devon 2003
One of our most difficult commissions ever – to create a thirty minute show that explored cultural attitudes to death for this great conference organised by North Devon Hospice. Our show, hosted by Death itself, followed the stories of four characters – a woman who takes her own life, a teenager who goes missing, an older woman diagnosed with dementia & a young man diagnosed as being HIV Positive, & followed both their own relationships to death & the impact that that has on those around them. Even by our own standards a pretty powerful piece & it was certainly perhaps the one piece of theatre that we have had the most ever response to. At the end of the performance a ten minute unscheduled break was announced to allow people time to collect themselves before the conference continued…
“I am writing to thank you officially for the superb performance you devised for our conference…It demonstrated such insight…& very sensitively illustrated the impact of dying & bereavement in a range of different experiences. Please convey my heartfelt thanks to the actors”
Conference Organiser