A Pacifist's guide
to the war on cancer

2016 - 2017

A COMPLICITE ASSOCIATES CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE NATIONAL THEATRE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH HOME MANCHESTER

A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer is an all-singing, all-dancing examination of life with a cancer diagnosis.
This brand new musical takes you on a whistle-stop tour through five unconventional stories about cancer, confronting the highs and lows of the scariest word we know. Bryony Kimmings creates fearless theatre to provoke social change. Her latest collaboration with Complicite will look behind the poster campaigns and pink ribbons at the reality of cancer: the waiting rooms and chemo suites, the changed bodies, the family pressures and financial worries.

Expect big anthems, shiny costumes, blood, tears and real cancer patients in this rip-roaring, heartbreaking celebration of ordinary life and death, scratching at the battle metaphors that surround cancer to reveal what really lies beneath.

Watch the trailer HERE.

For more information and 2018 Tour Dates visit www.complicite.org


BOOK BY BRYONY KIMMINGS & BRIAN LOBEL
music BY tom parkinson
lyrics BY BRYONY KIMMINGs

directed BY BRYONY KIMMINGs

photography christa holka

image & art direction david curtis-ring