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Breaking the silence on mental health
Skilled transitions: Hearing Things
[Ron Bambridge]
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Hearing Things
Omnibus Theatre, London
AROUND a quarter of the population experience mental health problems each year yet it’s still a subject many prefer not to discuss and one with a fair amount of stigma attached.
Philip Osment breaks the silence in his compelling drama Hearing Things, in which we witness psychiatrist Nicholas (Jim Pope) struggling with the demands of his work, the needs of his patients, his father’s advancing dementia and his own wellbeing.
Ingeniously, the nature of mental health and identity is explored by the three actors who, portraying six different characters, often take the audience by surprise when swapping between them.
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