18th January 2025
2:30 & 7:30pm
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Multi award-winning comedy writer, JAN ETHERINGTON has written two plays recently which feature those who are dealing with life-changing illness and their families. They are each full of poignancy and purpose, wit and warmth, laughter and tears.
In aid of THE PEAR TREE FUND, a Halesworth-based charity who offer support, advice and practical information to those who are suffering from life-changing illnesses and their families.
THE S.H.I.T. CLUB (Supporting Husbands in Trauma) is a 45 minute piece in which we meet three women, each caring for husbands with different, serious conditions – Alzheimer’s, cancer and a stroke – and eavesdrop on their pub meetings, where they support each other, cry and often laugh together.
YOU’LL BE FINE is 25 mins long and was commissioned by the Pear Tree Fund 3 years ago, as an aid for counsellors to help families understand the importance of talking to a seriously ill loved one about their wishes and their needs.
Based on Jan’s friendship with the actress Lynda Bellingham, who died of cancer in 2014, Jan remembers Lynda’s frustration that her family shied away from her request to discuss her end of life needs.
Jan Etherington is a Patron of The Pear Tree Fund and a contributing writer to the INK FESTIVAL. Her current writing success is BBC Radio 4’s beloved, long running comedy series Conversations from a Long Marriage, starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. A 6th series is about to begin on BBC Radio 4.
Cast: Hilary Greatorex, Vincent Franklin, Helen Atkinson Wood and Charlotte Parry.
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