Disability Futures

It is admittedly an odd title. A musical about assisted suicide?!? The description of the musicalfrom the Southbank Centre is well worth a visit. There is a short 2-minute video (audio described and subtitled) with Liz Carr giving her reasons for the show herself. Some of my friends raised their eyebrows when I said I was excited to get a ticket to see the fabulous Liz Carr performing in that spectacle. Even more wonderful is that I would be joined by a few new Canadian friends who would discuss the show with me over a bite later in the evening to give me a North American take on it. After all, I am writing this review for Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Project based in the US.

I find the show is imbued with the character of Liz Carr herself – her acerbic wit, her passion, ingenuity, anger, compassion and dare I say, vulnerability, shone through. She is well known for playing forensic examiner Clarissa Mullery on the BBC drama Silent Witness, a regular in the comedy line-up Abnormally Funny People, and previous co-host of BBC Ouch! She is also a campaigner at Not Dead Yet, an international network of disabled people opposed to the legalisation of assisted suicide.