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PREVIEW: Star of ITVā€™s Transformation Street takes to the stage in ‘Dead and Breathing’

Besi Besemar February 18, 2018

Actress Kim Tatum aka Mzz Kimberley stars inĀ Dead and BreathingĀ by Chisa Hutchinson, at The Albany in London, from February 19 – March 3, 2018.

Transformation Street is a three part ITV documentary following the staff and patients in a London gender clinic. The show follows gender reassignmentĀ specialist Dr Christopher Inglefield, and follows the fascinating and heart-warming stories of people transitioning their gender.

Written by Chisa Hutchinson and directed Rebecca Atkinson-LordĀ Dead and BreathingĀ is a dark comedy of ethics and mortality that positions the right to die against the right to live your own life. Through constantly surprising humour and persistent questioning, Dead and BreathingĀ investigates morality, mortality, and the intense tug-of-war between the right to die with dignity and the idea of life as a gift.

Spiteful old Carolyn Whitlock wants to die already. Sheā€™s been sick with cancer for almost as long as she can remember and the pain has made her so mean that thereā€™s no one left who loves her.

Carolyn just wants to give up, but in order to do so, sheā€™s going to have to work harder than she ever has in her privileged life to convince her very Christian nurse Veronika to help her. But Veronika isnā€™t all she seems, and so before Carolyn can die in peace, theyā€™ll both need to let go of everything they believe about what is right.

Can this well-to-do widow, slowly succumbing to cancer manage to convince, her home nurse, to help her end her life?

It wouldnā€™t be easy at the best of times, but it becomes almost impossible when Carolyn finds a final hurdle she must overcome. Spoiled, privileged, sheltered and judgemental she is repulsed by transsexuals and Veronika happens to be one. If Carolyn wants her own way, she will not only have to convince Veronika to do something that goes against her every belief; she will also need to choose what she denounces with revulsion as “death by tranny.”


Event:Ā Dead and Breathing

Where: The Albany,Ā Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG

When: February 20 – March 3

Time: 7.30pm

Cost:Ā Ā£14 (Ā£10 concessions)

To book tickets online, click here:

Or call the box office:Ā 020 8692 4446

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