Bright Places review – reflective yet raucous play about living with MS

Bright Places review – reflective yet raucous play about living with MS

Birmingham Rep
Rae Mainwaring’s award-winning drama about a young woman with multiple sclerosis is given a playful production

This play’s title refers to the patches of an MRI scan that indicate multiple sclerosis but Rae Mainwaring’s play crackles with bright places of its own. Based on her experience of having the degenerative condition since she was 23, it is funny as well as reflective, raucous as well as sad.

Tessa Walker’s playful touring production for Carbon Theatre picks up on the youthful energy of the script, winner of a Peggy Ramsay/Film4 award. For the character in Bright Places, MS strikes at a time of dating, dancing and forging a career.

At Birmingham Rep until 2 November. Touring until 13 December

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