We are here because I  am very ill. I’ve done a lot of researching and writing and thinking and I’ve written the first version of a show based around my experiences of chronic illness.

 I wanted the show to be intimate and absurd and visceral and touching. I wanted to create an insight into the experience of chronic illness with all its impossible contradictions and unpredictability. Reproducing a sense of interruption was particularly important to me. My show was very much written in my own voice and based on my own experiences living with a chronic illness. It seems only right that my documentation emulates the conversational albeit chaotic form of my show. 

​My show is intended for those who might share in my experience and also for those whose lives have never been interrupted by illness. Maybe they could consider what that interruption feels like. My final performance didn’t follow a linear story but exists as a collage of scenes that blend into each other. I wanted to create a messy portrayal of illness that is at times disorientating and interrupts itself, mimicking the unpredictability of my own life.