A Darkly Humorous Exploration of Anxiety, Theatre-Making and A&E Waiting Rooms.
Skin & Blister Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the premiere of their highly anticipated new production, Don't Let Me Die Before Sunday, as part of the Lambeth Fringe Festival, running from October 18th to 20th, 2024. This follows the company's successful debut, Hold Me Close, which garnered acclaim at the Brighton Fringe and Camden Fringe in 2021. Reviewers called it "a joy to watch” and “bound to make you laugh, bring a smile to your face, and possibly a tear or two”.
About the Show:Three years after their debut show, Hold Me Close, Skin and Blister were stuck with a banging title and a simple idea: our mental health dramatised for your pleasure. But how the hell to stage a show about anxiety without it being too self-indulgent/triggering/a bit sh*t?
Don’t Let Me Die Before Sunday, written by Elspeth McColl and directed by DArcy Brown, has existed in every form possible. With every new draft, comes different problems and new headaches. Ella McCallum stars as Aoife, but also as herself, and also as an actor playing themselves, and also as Aoife playing herself, and…. can you see why it’s taken two years?
A one-person show* and an exhuming of our ideas graveyard, Don’t Let Me Die Before Sunday has reached its final form. Finally.
About Skin & Blister:Skin & Blister is DArcy, Ella and Elspeth’s COVID baby, born from chaos and destined to make more. Brought together by the fates (and a shared disillusionment with existing theatre spaces), the trio were united in their shared sense of humour and a desire to make theatre that is important, without necessarily playing by the rules.
Audience-focused, and utilising innovative story-telling, Skin & Blister’s work has explored themes of mental health, friendship, experiences of being working class, and what it means to be ‘home’. We aim to produce work that creates conversations, creates community, and always creates with compassion.
Performance Details:• Dates: October 18th - 20th, 2024, 7pm
• Location: The Bread and Roses Theatre
• Tickets: Available now
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