An Instinct for Kindness
From: Tuesday, 10th April 2012
To: Saturday, 28 April 2012
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Synopsis
In November 2010, Chris Larner accompanied his chronically ill ex-wife to Switzerland's Dignitas clinic. He came home with an empty wheelchair and a story to tell.
This moving, bittersweet show reflects on the circumstances, morality and humanity surrounding the journey. In a candid, poignant and sometimes comic performance, Chris explores both the profound personal implications and the wider ethical considerations of the contentious issue of assisted dying.
An Instinct for Kindness premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011, where it won the coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award and was featured on BBC's Newsnight Review as a highlight of the festival.
Our Review:
13 April 2012
Chris Larner’s affecting one-man An Instinct for Kindness opens with a heart-rending insight into the excruciating pain his ex-wife endured as an MS sufferer, and culminates in her death at Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic.
As a lone spotlight illuminates - figuratively as well as literally - the brutal difficulty presented by the act of sitting down, the audience enters a world of intense pain, sleeplessness, incontinence and isolation, and glimpses the desperate realities of life with chronic illness.
Part testimony and part eulogy, Larner’s monument to the person he loved is shot through with an anger that seeks to deny the moral and ethical judgment cast by those who would contest the agency and entitlement of his former partner to end her life.
As a playwright and actor, the treatment of his subject is unsentimental - a necessary quality in this context, where sentimentality can be devastating to those it touches. Much of its impa...
Cast
Creative
Chris Larner (Author)
Seabright Productions (Producer)
Hannah Eidinow (Director)
James Smith (Lighting)
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