Bethan Dear

How To Be Well In A World That Is Sick? (Work in Progress)

Sunday 5th May, 2019

12:15 pm | 60 mins

£ 7.50

The Vortex, Y Plas

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Artistic director of Jackdaw theatre, Bethan Dear makes her debut at the Mach festival with a new version of her first ever solo show. A darkly comic and poignant exploration of women’s mental and emotional health.

Society. A patriarchal, image obsessed, capitalist, consumer machine. A global sickness. A worldwide epidemic.

Where do we run? Where can we hide? How do we get away when the over culture conditioning, has seeped into our very skin? What then? Mental illness? Emotional instability? Breakdown? Burnout? Madness?

How do we define well or unwell? And who is given the voice to decide which is which?

Join me for a journey from start to finish. From the end, back to the beginning, and back again.

Many. Times. Over.

Reviews from previous Jackdaw productions.

★★★★★ “extraordinary” WHATSONSTAGE

★★★★★ “If you can get your hands on a ticket, it’s a must.” EVERYTHING THEATRE

★★★★ “heartfelt, heartwarming and encouraging.” THE PUBLIC REVIEW

★★★★ FEMALE ARTS

Machynlleth Comedy Festival’s Theatre Programme is funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

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How To Be Well In A World That Is Sick? (Work in Progress)

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