APP: In our network, many mothers had no prior experience of mental illness. However, we also know that past experiences of psychosis or being diagnosed with bipolar can also trigger PP. Had you experienced mental health problems prior to giving birth? Ellora Torchia (Maia) Nessah: There are elements of my experience that were almost psychotic, like the mirror stuff that I showed Maia experiencing in the film. There were mini hallucinations that I started to develop, and it’s difficult to unravel whether they were indeed hallucinations or just really strong intrusive thoughts. As a child, I spent time around adults experiencing psychosis so I had personal experience of it to draw upon as well. Nessah: Yes. My OCD was something I had lived with since I was a young kid. (Although I had no idea it was OCD or indeed what OCD even was.) Growing up in the 90s and early noughties, with no internet and not as many people talking about mental health, I basically thought I was some kind of monster. There’s a history of mental ill health in my family, but I had no idea that intrusive thoughts were a thing. So I remember being so ashamed and not being able to tell anybody the true extent of the thoughts I was experiencing. I may have tried once or twice but the look of horror on people’s faces made me feel unable to speak out about it. The Winter King,' from Sony's Bad Wolf Productions, to Debut on U.K. Streaming Platform ITVX". 19 August 2022. Small Wonders was originally commissioned by Punchdrunk Enrichment, LIFT and Bernie Grant Arts Centre. It first ran from 2nd June – 13th July 2018.

As I got older, I became scared of having children because I thought I might hurt them. Of course, I felt there was no way I could tell my husband this, I was deeply ashamed and fearful of what he might think of me. She added: “The working class, as a group, there’s an idea or a feeling that they’re being lectured to and being told what they should and shouldn’t do.Penny is an Iranian-German independent producer and climate activist whose artistic practice is rooted in her experience as an organiser. She works primarily with migrant and diasporic artists who seek to empower audiences by blurring the line between theatre and protest. Her most recent project, Peyvand Sadeghian’s DUAL دوگانھ ,won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival 2020. Penny graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts’ MA Creative Producing programme in 2017, and has previously worked across production, programming and administration at Selladoor Worldwide.

Part of Channel 4’s ‘On the Edge’ drama anthology, Cradled is a powerful portrayal of postpartum psychosis. She began her career in the 1980s as an actress with the theatre company Monstrous Regiment. As a feminist she's fascinated by the control issues around food and body image. "In the Victorian age women were policed over their sexuality; by the 1960s sex was OK, so they had to find something else to police you about." Gobble Gobble Gobble Gobble Goblin is a dark and fantastical domestic comedy about mental illness, duty of care,Eccleshare is currently being pulled in the direction of the latter, however. He has just penned an episode of Criminal Record, an upcoming Apple TV+ crime drama starring Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo. Theatre includes: The Effect (English Theatre Frankfurt); The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree); Oor Wullie (Dundee Rep/UK Tour); Variations (NT Connections); Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse); Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre/Yellow Earth/Tamasha); Describe the Night (Hampstead Theatre); In Event of Moone Disaster (Theatre 503); Cosmic Scallies (Royal Exchange, Manchester/Graeae); Moth (Hope Mill Theatre); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Scarlet, The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse); Adding Machine: A Musical (Finborough Theatre). Film includes: Pretending – Orla Gartland Music Video, I Wonder Why – Joesef Music Video. I wrote, rewrote and rewrote and rewrote again, first a series pitch document, then a story beat sheet, (detailing the pilot episode, scene by scene) and then finally a draft of a script... well in fact two drafts before a workshop with actors.

She has written for television before and worked for Sky TV’s first Asian reality show, ‘ Desi Rascals’ but this award will help her to develop a fiction idea. Sarah’s voice is extremely funny, honest and caustic,” he says. “She’s sort of like the best mother in the world and the worst mother in the world. She will leave her kids on the side of the motorway to make their own way home but also fully support them through their quite extreme difficulties.” The company provides opportunities in theatre writing for women of South Asian heritage, and if we want to change the landscape of the arts, you need Kali at the heart of it, argued Muthy. Nathaniel Martello-White as Merlin, a politician, powerful, enlightened, and absolute. Fearless in the face of a King’s wrath, he follows his connection to his Gods in all things. [5] Muthy examines the intersection between climate activism and class division in How To Save The Planet When You’re A Young Carer And Broke, which follows the story of Lavisha Smith, a mixed-race 14-year-old caring for her disabled mother on an estate in London.

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Ken Nwosu as Sagramor, a fierce Numidian from Africa Nova and veteran of the old Roman army who has followed Arthur to Britain after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. [7]

The Old Vic 12 are: Penny Babakhani, Milli Bhatia, Nicola Chang, Poppy Corbett, Tim Foley, Chi-San Howard, Hannah Joss, Nassy Konan, Cindy Lin, Reece McMahon, Madelaine Moore and Nessah Muthy. Geraghty builds a brilliant rapport with the children, who are soon anxious to help her in any way possible. There’s a certain sense of mischief that only grandparents and grandchildren share, which Small Wonders taps into quite brilliantly. Eventually, after “thinking big”, we dive headfirst into one of Nanny’s miniature creations and explore a fantasy forest. To say much more would spoil the fun but there are surprises nestling in every corner. At one point, Qeiva pulls on a vine to unleash a canopy of stars, all while munching on a biscuit. I’ve never seen her so happy at the theatre. The Old Vic and Shoreditch Town Hall announce this year’s The Old Vic 12 – a group of writers, producers, directors and creatives who, since March, have been working together digitally and in person, in line with social distancing, to create three new pieces of work. Nicola Chang (Sound designer/Composer), Chi-San Howard (Movement Director) and Cindy Lin (Designer) are a part of the creative teams for all three productions. Muthy’s dramatisation… is touching and emotionally challenging -an excellent piece of thought-provoking theatre’

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All the kids are initially intimidated, but Nanny (Erin Geraghty) and her daughter Bella (Sarah Akokhia) soon put the children at ease. Nanna talks us through the models crammed into her home and, gradually, cherished memories take over the living room. We look at a tiny model of Nanny and Bella dancing at Butlins and a disco ball suddenly spins over our heads. Nanny remembers a rainy caravan holiday and shining rainbow-lights burst through the ceiling. The real world and the imagined begin to merge. The fact is this is a highly collaborative process, neither of you really know what “it” is you're creating because [hopefully] it’s new and uncharted. You have to trust that you’ll find and work “it” out together. And that’s just in script/story terms, the real life world of my story was also largely unfamiliar so we needed time to research and work out that world too. Everything is deeply personal,” Nessah Muthy says of her work. “It’s cheaper than paying for therapy.”