Upcoming performances
The launch performance of Fighting for Life at Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead,
hosted by actor Greg Wise
May 2025
Fighting For Life
Inspired by a family written case study, The Findlay Report, that highlights the troubling concerns of members of the Findlay family when their elderly parents needed joined up health and social care – Joan had dementia and Jim had Motor Neurone Disease - towards the end of their lives but it wasn’t readily available - and is still problematic.
Date: 7 May 2025
Location: Keech Hospice, Luton
Tickets: N/A
May 2025
Hello My Name Is…
Commissioned by St Gemma’s Hospice, Leeds where the consultant geriatrician Dr Kate Granger passed away shortly after her 30th birthday, but not before creating the ‘Hello My Name Is…’ campaign with her husband, Chris Pointon. When Kate became a patient herself, she looked at the health professionals from the patient’s point of view, rather than as a doctor and came to really understand the confusion felt by many patients when they are at their most vulnerable
Date: 9 May 2025
Location: Birkenhead
Tickets: N/A
May 2025
Hello My Name Is…
Commissioned by St Gemma’s Hospice, Leeds where the consultant geriatrician Dr Kate Granger passed away shortly after her 30th birthday, but not before creating the ‘Hello My Name Is…’ campaign with her husband, Chris Pointon. When Kate became a patient herself, she looked at the health professionals from the patient’s point of view, rather than as a doctor and came to really understand the confusion felt by many patients when they are at their most vulnerable
Date: 14 May 2025
Location: Personalised Care and Professional Practice Conference, Sunderland
Tickets: N/A
May 2025
Fighting For Life
Inspired by a family written case study, The Findlay Report, that highlights the troubling concerns of members of the Findlay family when their elderly parents needed joined up health and social care – Joan had dementia and Jim had Motor Neurone Disease - towards the end of their lives but it wasn’t readily available - and is still problematic.
Date: 23 May 2025
Location: International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Utrecht, Netherlands
Tickets: N/A
July 2025
Where or When
This play was commissioned by a major NHS Trust that was anxious for older people with a dementia diagnosis to be treated holistically and with respect; that healthcare professionals would take time to understand the history and lives of the patients and certainly not be dismissive of their language which could well be rooted in the life of the person before dementia.
Date: 2 July 2025
Location: Brigg, Lincolnshire
Tickets: N/A
August 2025
Sound Of Silence
The most likely cause of death with younger men under 35 is death at their own hands. Inspired by the real story of Ross McCarthy, a 31-year-old from a supportive family with much to live for - but he chose the other option. This play features his mum, dad, sister, fiancée and psychologist and himself. It highlights the poor provision of mental health services.
Date: 28 August
Location: Blackpool
Tickets: N/A
May 2022
Blue Skies
Commissioned by Wakefield Hospice, the brief was to create a play encouraging conversations around advance care planning, organ donation, living wills, power of attorney and post-bereavement help and support.
Date: 4 May 2022
Location: Online performance
Tickets: N/A
March 2022
Beneath the White Coat
This new play, inspired by Clare Gerada’s book ‘Beneath the White Coat’, is an opportunity to explore the personal stories and journeys of a group of healthcare professionals as they struggle to keep their personal and professional lives on course. Presented by Doctors in Distress and Brian Daniels, the play is part of the Doctors in Distress Restore creativity project in partnership with The Bigger Picture.
Date: 17th March 2022
Location: The Wounded Healer Conference, Royal College of GPs, London
Tickets: bit.ly/3IcHj5G
February 2022
Sound of Silence
The most likely cause of death with younger men under 35 is death at their own hands. Inspired by the real story of Ross McCarthy, a 31-year-old from a supportive family with much to live for - but he chose the other option. This play features his mum, dad, sister, fiancée and psychologist and himself. It highlights the poor provision of mental health services.
Date: 23rd February 2022 1pm and 4pm
Location: Leeds Becket University Performing Arts Centre
Tickets: N/A
January 2022
Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer
A theatrical presentation of the life and music of the composer Gideon Klein, written and devised by David Fligg, in a new dramatisation by Brian Daniels. Part of part of Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in Kirklees.
Date: 26th January 2022
Location: St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield
Tickets: https://t.co/Tz748JG556