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Oh, Calm Down

From award-winning writer, Charlotte Anne-Tilley (Almost Adult), comes a moving and exploratory play about OCD, misdiagnosis and discovering yourself.

Oh, Calm Down

About Oh, Calm Down

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It’s 1999, Lucy is in labour and trying to hold herself together. In 2024, Claire is an art student having panic attacks – and contemplating her own mortality.

The show explores two hugely misunderstood types of OCD: postnatal OCD and existential OCD through Lucy and Claire’s stories.

Summerhall, Cairns Lecture Theatre, Thursday 1st – Monday 26th August 2024 (not 12th, 19th), 15:00 THEATRE

Tickets are available from website link above
£17 (£14.50)

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