My next (and last for a while) play Four Weigh-Ins and a Funeral is on stage with it’s fist performance two weeks today. This is a play truly inspired by the wonderful community I have found at my SlimmingWorld group.
Please do come - and please share this with as many people as you can. Fringe theatre isn’t cheap - especially when you pay your cast Living Wage. But more than this, the piece and my fabulous cast deserve an audience.
It’s not a play about losing weight but about finding community. Four Weigh-Ins and a Funeral celebrates the bonds that form between women of different ages, classes, races and sizes at a SlimmingWorld group. With little in common but their geography and their desire to lose weight (or keep it off), this play explores how much we truly have in common - however different we all are. Middle class bridge instructors share recipes and family gossip with Muslim matriarchs. Everyone supports each other as they go through the ups and downs of life together. This 'found community' meet every week and form the strongest of bonds.
"First commissioned by The Play’s The Thing for the Taking the Stage Festival, ‘Four Weigh-Ins and a Funeral’ was created to celebrate the love and community Emma has received from the Tuesday morning Walthamstow SlimmingWorld group and is dedicated to Gulnaz – who Emma calls her SlimmingWorld Mummy.
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