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Girls Are Doing It For
Themselves!
Squirrels
Washington Arts Centre
Thursday 4th February
2016
North
East company Operating Theatre is back at the Arts Centre Washington with a new play which
pulls no punches about the effect of a lack of funding in the NHS.
Both funny and moving, Squirrels is the story of
how a group of young women with mental
health problems decide to go it alone and
form their own support group when
they can’t get the help they need.
The play, written by Operating Theatre director,
Alex Elliott takes a look long hard look at how young people suffering from
such things as depression, anxiety, and issues of self worth, are too often left
to fend for themselves, sometimes with tragic results.
‘The fact is that many young people are falling
through the cracks when it comes to getting help, ’ he said. ‘And although the
play is about this very serious situation, it also offers real hope in the way
in which one young woman in particular ends up as a kind of advocate for the
problem.’
Squirrels is the third Operating Theatre play about
how lack of NHS funding is affecting various vulnerable groups in society. The
first, For the Best, focussed on care for people with learning disability while
the second, The Sitting Room dealt with care for the elderly. http://nomorepanicbutton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/review-for-best-at-arts-centre.html
On
The Web:
Website:
http://operatingtheatre.org.uk/
Tickets:
Squirrels is on at Arts Centre Washington on Thursday 4 February
at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £8.50 / £6 (concession) and can be
booked at www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
or by calling 0191 219 3455.
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