ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
Thursday 21st – Sunday 24th May
at Folkestone Quarterhouse
Normal? – Festival of the Brain at Folkestone Quarterhouse brings science and art
together over three days to explore the brain. What happens when connections,
chemicals and catastrophes send things off course, and is there such a thing as normal?
Meet the archivists inside a brain, trying to keep
dementia at bay whilst they sort through a lifetime
of memories; meet the puppet learning to adapt
to motor neurone disease; meet the boy who is
making a list of every brilliant thing in the world
for his mother to combat her depression.
Participate in debates, daily mindfulness sessions,
workshops and much more.
You can enjoy as many Normal? events as you
like by purchasing either a £15 day pass or a
£40 four-day pass. The full programme is available
at www.quarterhouse.co.uk or contact the box
office on 01303 760750 for more info.
After being diagnosed with motor neurone
disease, Ted goes on the trip of a lifetime…and
so does his pet fish. As the disease starts to
cause his mobility to degenerate, Ted rushes
towards experiencing a world that is outside of
his comfort zone, from the streets of Lille to the
romance of Venice.
Humorous, heart-warming and hopeful, CELL
features charming puppetry, physical theatre and
an original musical score to tell the story of one
man’s final adventure to create enough memories
to last a lifetime.
Crackpot
Every Brilliant Thing
Friday 22 May, 8.15pm // £6/ £5 concessions
Thursday 21 May, 1.30pm & 7.30pm // £10/ £8
concessions, for ages 14+
You’re six years old.
Mum’s in hospital.
Dad says she’s
‘done something
stupid’. She finds it
hard to be
happy. So you start
to make a list of
everything that’s
brilliant about the
world. Everything
that’s worth living
for: 1. Ice Cream; 2. Kung Fu Movies; 3. Burning
Things; 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out
your nose; 5. Construction cranes; 6. Me.
You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read
it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon,
the list will take on a life of its own. A new play
about depression and the lengths we will go to
for those we love.
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
Saturday 23 May, 8.15pm // £6/ £5 concessions
(work in progress performance)
Bryony
Kimmings is an
outrageous,
hilarious and
fearless
performance
artist from
London. Tim
Grayburn is an
outrageous,
hilarious and
fearless
account manager at a top advertising firm. These
two humans happen to be a couple. Bryony
spends most of her life on tour trying her best to
change the world. Tim spends most of his life at
a desk trying his best to sell the world. Six months
into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim
has severe clinical depression.
Crackpot is a funny, bold, insightful show about
a woman’s seven years working in an astonishing
way with people experiencing dementia.
One in four of us will suffer from mental health
issues in our lifetime, up to 8% of us can be
struggling on any one day, and 70% of patients
in the doctor's queue are there for mental health
reasons. It is estimated that half of