A Pacifist's Guide
to the War on Cancer
2016-2018
A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer is an all-singing, all-dancing examination of life with a cancer diagnosis.
This brand new musical takes you on a whistle-stop tour through five unconventional stories about cancer, confronting the highs and lows of the scariest word we know. Bryony Kimmings creates fearless theatre to provoke social change. Her latest collaboration with Complicite will look behind the poster campaigns and pink ribbons at the reality of cancer: the waiting rooms and chemo suites, the changed bodies, the family pressures and financial worries.
Expect big anthems, shiny costumes, blood, tears and real cancer patients in this rip-roaring, heartbreaking celebration of ordinary life and death, scratching at the battle metaphors that surround cancer to reveal what really lies beneath.
Press
★★★★
“Kimmings and her co-creators, Brian Lobel and Tom Parkinson, know how to turn manipulation into the finest of arts. I mean that as a really sincere compliment.”
The Guardian
Credits
Book by Brian Lobel and Bryony Kimmings. Lyrics by Bryony Kimmings. Music by Tom Parkinson. Directed by Bryony Kimmings. Assistant Director Debbie Hannan. Set Design Lucy Osbourne. Lighting Design Paul Anderson. Costume Design Christine Cunningham. Choreographer Lizzie Gee
Originally a Complicité Associates co-production with the National Theatre in association with HOME Manchester.
Supported by Mirish & Lebenheim Charitable foundation, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, The London Community Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
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