Organised by Story
Following our Arts Council funded 15 date national tour of libraries this Summer 2018, we have another 60 libraries and community venues as confirmed bookings for Spring 2019. However, we need to raise another 30% match funding of the total cost of this tour. Gaye's wonderful & helpful husband, Keith Martin, will be running the Oxford Half Marathon to raise some of this much needed match funding!
How you can help:
It costs a bare minimum of £750 to bring our play to one library and so we are asking for your help to fund just three performances. Every little bit really does help and we massively appreciate anything you can share, including your help in sharing our campaign. Thank you so much!
About the play:
Connie is a retired domestic science teacher. Emily, her daughter, is enjoying hosting her first TV cookery show: Connie's Colander, bringing her mothers recipes onscreen and up to date. Sensitively, with humour and tenderness this newly written play traces the evolving relationship throughout their lives, and the impact of Connie's Alzheimer's. Can their relationship, and the TV show, survive?
50 minute show followed by a 20 minute Q&A with a dementia specialist.
An informal atmosphere is created for the Q&A, facilitated by the two actors, with local dementia specialists able to signpost people to their local services. Building on the story within the play, the audience is also encouraged to share their own experiences, both to offload and also to help support fellow audience members, if appropriate.
This is a compelling play, excellently acted and tautly directed ... (**** THE OXFORD TIMES)
beautifully crafted, tightly written, intensely poignant and moving exploration of the effect of dementia on a mother and her daughter - a short dramatic jewel. (Daily Info)
Natural light & natural setting fit well with the human dimension of the story (Cowley Library)
local community as the audience which is nice (Woodcote Library)
great use of public space & very accessible (Woodcote Library)
It feels more human. I came here with my children so it made the mother-child relationship more poignant (Headington Library)
the close presence of the actors makes it seem more personal and confrontational challenging (Cippenham Library)
I brought my 18 year old kids to this performance to help them understand this issue (Wyndmonham Library)
I understand my husband better (Worthing Library)
compared it with my experience with my parents and it helped me (Bury St Edmunds Library)
recognised so much that we are going through with my mum (Henley Library)
the human, relational element of dementia so powerful, & speaks to people so much more than health promotion literature (Headington Library)
I learned much more about the language use to speak to my father (Woodcote Library)