The Long Run
Katie Arnstein
Tue 28th Feb - Sun 5th Mar
20:00,19:30,15:00 (
60 mins)
Theatre
Tickets from £13.00
Venue: Pit
Age Guidance: 12+
Language, distressing themes including cancer.
Katie has never been good in a crisis. She once saw her sister accidentally chop off the top of her finger but couldn’t call an ambulance because she had fainted. At 19, Katie returned from a university night out and saw her front door had been kicked in. She waited until her housemates arrived 40 minutes later to find almost all of their possessions stolen.
When her mum is diagnosed with cancer, she freezes again.
When Katie meets an elderly man, George, in Derby Hospital’s radiotherapy waiting room, everything changes.
One in two of us will get cancer in our lifetimes. It can happen to anyone. People who run the marathon… they’ve only got themselves to blame.
A show about love, life and running for a really long time from the multi-award-winning writer Katie Arnstein.
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Katie Arnstein
Katie Arnstein is a writer and performer originally from the West Midlands. Her work includes the storytelling trilogy It’s a Girl! which consists of Bicycles and Fish, Sexy Lamp and Sticky Door. Her work has won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival twice, Pick of Pleasance at VAULT Festival, an Offie Commendation, was one of 8 pieces shortlisted for the 2020 Popcorn Award and has been included in The Guardian’s Top 15 Edinburgh Shows Now Touring. She has been shortlisted for The Evening Standard’s Future of Theatre Award 2021 and is a member of the 2021 BBC Writer’s Room-Coventry Voices. Arnstein has recently become an Associate Artist of Pleasance Theatre.
Bec Martin a director and producer. Previously Bec headed up Creative Engagement and Participation departments for organisations such as the Orange Tree Theatre, Arcola Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before moving to the UK, she was a director and actor, co-founding award-winning Australian theatre company pantsguys Productions.
Press & Reviews
Praise for previous work:
Bicycles and Fish, Sexy Lamp and Sticky Door
Shorlisted for the Evening Standard's Future of Theatre Award, the Popcorn Award and winner of Show of the Week and Pleasance Pick of VAULT.
View from the Cheap Seats ★★★★★ “A quiet tour-de-force of a storyteller”
The Reviewers Hub ★★★★★ “Plays as good as this are rare”
Broadway World ★★★★★ “Astonishing”
Within Her Words ★★★★★ “A master storyteller”
A Younger Theatre ★★★★★ “Genius”
Guardian ★★★★ "Supremely assured"
Cast & Creative Team Writer and Performer: Katie Arnstein
Director: Bec Martin
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