Akshita Rana
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Bryonny Kimmings Gives A New Outlook To Cancer Through Her Musical
- JWB Post
- November 3, 2016
If illness can be expressed in a beautiful way rather than sad, depressing stories, then why not to do it?
The idea of a musical on cancer seems pretty insensitive. Well, that is what the woman behind it all Bryony Kimmings thought.
In Britain, there is reluctance among the people to talk about anything sad or unsavory. With A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer, the performance artist cum director Bryony wanted to create a piece of work that aimed to tackle this stigma. The musical forces its audience to ponder the privilege of health, laughing and crying through the journey of a single mother and her baby into the kingdom of the sick, meeting an array of people with different cancer on the way.
Susan Sontag’s work Illness as Metaphor formed the basis of this musical performed by a cast of all-singing and dancing actors who are either impersonating cancer patients or have had cancer themselves.
Here are a few lines from Illness as Metaphor:
“Everyone who is born holds a dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later, each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
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