The wonderful Rae Mainwaring has an incredible new play Bright Places. Rae was 23 when MS came crashing into her life without warning. She's harnessed her story and turned it into art to reach other MSers across the country. A three-woman, one-woman show about Multiple Sclerosis, MS for short, not to be confused with M&S or S&M. With 90s pop, a costume box and a whole heap of glitter, Bright Places is a darkly funny and deeply honest autobiographical story about growing up in the shadow of chronic illness. Bright Places will be showing at the following:- Exeter Northcott, Exeter 13 - 14 November 2024 Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester 22 November 2024 Dorchester Arts, Dorchester 28 November 2024 Soho Theatre, London 2 - 7 December 2024 Taunton Brewhouse, Taunton 12 December 2024 Crediton Arts Centre, Crediton 13 December 2024 There will be a Sharing Event on 7th December at Soho Theatre, London. This Sharing Event will bring people suffering with chronic illnesses together to get creative. Please click on the link below if you are interested in tickets. https://www.carbontheatre.org.uk/brightplaces Online sessions We have ten online check-in sessions but we’ve broken it down into two five-week blocks for ease of booking in! These are relaxed, online sessions hosted by Jo Gleave as an opportunity to keep in touch with the project, whether you've attended one of our Creative Days and would like to explore and develop on work that you created there or you're completely new to the project and want to join a friendly group which will be a mix of discussion, creative exercises and updates on the project and sharing. You can dip in and out as needed and don’t have to attend all the check-ins in each 5-week block! All sessions will be live captioned (with a live and post-event transcript). Schedule Pre-Christmas block: Tuesday 12 November: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 19 November: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 26 November: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 3 December: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 10 December: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Post-Christmas block: Tuesday 7 January: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 14 January: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 21 January: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 28 January: 7.00pm - 8.30pm Tuesday 4 February: 7.00pm - 8.30pm