Pricks:
A Play
By
Jade Byrne
Sunday
28 April 2019 Darlington Pennyweight
Friday
10 May 2019 Hexham Queens Hall Arts
Centre
Tuesday
21 May 2019 Newcastle Northern Stage
I've
had over 70,000 pricks… of the medical kind.
This
is my chance to set the record straight about Type 1 diabetics like me.
Despite
what people say, I'm not bankrupting the NHS. And I can eat cake – a whole
bloody cake – if I want to.
Darlington actress, Jade Byrne, heads off on a special UK
tour this year as Pricks, a medical play with a difference about Type 1 Diabetes,
takes in a dozen dates from Hexham to Exeter and a few in-between.
At 33-years-old, Jade has been an actress for nine years, appearing
in the likes of Inspector George Gently, Casualty and Mount Pleasant, and a
Type 1 diabetic for the past 30.
An urgent, yet funny, new, one-woman show sees Jade tell a
warm, engaging and uplifting story with poetry, original soundscape about
families and learning to care for others better.
Looking
ahead to the tour Jade said: “I want everyone to experience Pricks and be
affected by it, in a good way. I want to be able to educate through
entertainment about what it (Type 1 Diabetes) actually is and I want the entire
world to see it. I love seeing the reaction from the audience at shows and it
is a great night out. It’s funny, but will make a lot of people cry, happy
tears as it’s everything I’d like myself from a theatre show.”
Beginning on April 25 Jade will take in Cheltenham, Leeds,
Darlington, Halifax, Hexham, Exeter, Hemel Hempstead, Newcastle, Harrogate,
Derby, and Doncaster before finishing at the Pulse Festival, Ipswich, on June
4.
Plaudits for Pricks include the following: -
“…educational,
heart-wrenching and heart-warming” - The List
“A revelatory piece of theatre” – The Stage
“…a polished, warm-hearted performance” – The Scotsman
Information
About Type 1 Diabetes
On The
Web:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JadeByrne_Actor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PricksPlay/
Instagram: @PricksPlay
(Edinburgh Fringe 2018) Promo Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surpZaxJp70&feature=youtu.be
Tickets:
April 28 Pennyweight;
Darlington
May 10 Queens
Hall Arts Centre; Hexham
May 21 Northern
Stage; Newcastle
https://www.northernstage.co.uk/Event/pricks
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