GOODSTOCK by Olivia Hirst
Photo credit Lost Watch
CAST
Rianna Dearden, Olivia Hirst, Illona Linthwaite
I’m 26.
Three women in my family have a cancer-causing genetic mutation. *
One of them is old, one of them is me and the other is dead.
In four years time, I have some options. **
Basically this is a play written about my relatives without their permission.
They won’t mind. ***
*BRCA1.
** Involves a scalpel.
*** I hope.
Canterbury Festival, Kent, November 2016
CAST, Doncaster, November 2016
Greenwich Theatre, January 2016
Southampton University to 200 first year medical students, September 2015
New Diorama Theatre, September 2015
Edinburgh Fringe 2015, Pleasance Courtyard (Attic)
"Lost Watch’s latest show could be maudlin, but isn’t. It feels honest, funny and true... This is a show that speaks across the generations, resurrects the dead, ponders the unlucky lottery of life, and reminds one that what is known can never again be unknown."
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian.