Are you or someone you love struggling with the overwhelming pressures of life?
Do the demands of work, family, and societal expectations leave you feeling invisible and exhausted?
You're not alone.
Many women are silently battling autoimmune diseases, often triggered by the immense stress and unspoken norms they face daily.
It's time to shine a light on these hidden struggles.
Inspired by the work of Dr Gabor Maté
Tilda is a busy working mum, caught in the unsatisfying squeeze between huge responsibilities at the office, the invisible mental and emotional loads at home, and a yearning to remember who she is and what she loves.
Add menopause, unspoken social norms that she’s unwittingly internalised, teenage kids, an ageing mother – and there you have it: enough already!
If you know anyone with autoimmune disease, this is your play.
On the couch with Gabor. Q & A conversation with the writer Dr Samantha Graham post London launch, March 7th 2024
This Is For You If…
- You’re a woman who feels overwhelmed by the pressures of work, family, and societal expectations.
- You know someone struggling with autoimmune disease.
- You’re interested in thought-provoking theatre that challenges social norms.
- You want to be part of a movement that brings invisible struggles to light.
- You appreciate live music, immersive projections, and innovative storytelling.
"10/10 recommend! Go see it!!"
"As a woman who has been raised to subconsciously people please and give my all for other people and never expect in return (especially to men) - this show was a wake up call to what that does to our physical and mental health. A truly heartfelt performance, clever writing, and amazing live music - this show was so inspiring and such a great time. Plus the projections were really cool. 10/10 recommend! Go see it!!" JK
About Samantha Graham
Samantha Graham has a PhD in management education & climate communication, and for decades she was an organisational development consultant, designing and delivering leadership education programs for cultural change.
She recently turned to playwriting as she wanted to try her hand at a completely different way of communicating and influencing people, specifically by multi-sensorial means that ‘move’ as much as educate. Her plays include live music and interactive projection and her subject matter is heavily influenced by her early training in Human Ecology, the science of interconnection. She inevitably draws on her lived experience in academia and the corporate world of the unconscious diminishment of women and nature, a founding tenet of the neo-liberal economies that have come to dominate the planet.
Inspired by the research of Dr Gabor Maté, Nkem Ndefo, Dr Suzanne Zeedyk and Caroline Criado-Perez amongst others, she brings her audiences’ attention to the interplay between socio-cultural norms and women’s health and well-being, with the aim of exploring the limitations of our current ways of knowing and being.
Science tells us we are designed for connection yet we are raised in a society designed for disconnection.
Sam’s plays translate that science into relatable experiences for general audiences and organisations, holding a mirror to our work and home lives in order to show the effects of valuing hyper-individualism over collective well-being, short-term wins over long-term foresight. Global technologies, global companies, global politics are tearing us asunder, diminishing trust as fast as they corrode the ecosystems on which all life depends. And yet Sam writes with an infallible belief in human goodness and our desire to do the right thing by each other.
