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Life is a Game - A rock musical about Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy

September 28th, 2009

Rehearsals for Song Rooms: Let’s Talk about Living are well under way now. This prestigious music project brings together teenagers and young adults attending Acorns Hospice, Walsall, with a student choir from Joseph Leckie Community Technology College, Walsall, to make a short rock musical based on the experience of living with muscular dystrophy. Composed by Harvey Brough, with musicians from the CBSO, the musical will be performed at 4.00pm, 5th October, at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham.

The students knew little about muscular dystrophy and what went on at the children’s hospice and the young people from the hospice had had little contact with Joseph Leckie College. It’s been a great learning process for everyone involved.

Diary: The Week

July 20th, 2009

Movement has been really powerful in allowing new guests to find out about each other in a way that values what they bring to the present moment rather than focusing on their losses. It enables people to open up and find out about each other through their own creativity and the vitality of their imaginations.

Press Coverage: FILM ABOUT TERMINAL ILLNESS PREMIERES IN BIRMINGHAM

June 26th, 2009

Night And Day premiere feature from the Birmingham Mail.

Press Coverage: St Giles patients make film about their terminal illness

June 16th, 2009

Read the press coverage on The Rosetta Live Project as featured on the This Is Lichfield website.

Diary: The Week

June 15th, 2009

The Magical Glow at Birmingham Rep was a great success. We filled the studio theatre two nights running June 9th/10th. Each performance was followed by a lively and intensely moving discussion. The concept of ‘performing yourself’ is central to the Rosetta Life approach. In Magical Glow we saw six hospice users from St Mary’s Hospice not only watching the show from backstage but joining the professionals on stage to play themselves at key points in the action. These were powerful interventions for both audience and performers - transformative of self-image and of the image the audience may have held of the so-called terminally ill.

Magical Glow Filming

June 15th, 2009

We filmed both performances of the Magical Glow and are currently editing a version that will be screened in hospices and hospitals across the West Midlands, sometimes with the cast in attendance. Look out on this site for dates and venues.

Press Coverage: The Magical Glow of the Co op

June 6th, 2009

Created in Birmingham published a great feature on Rosetta Live. You can read the full article on the Created in Birmingham website.

Diary: The Week

May 27th, 2009

Next week we begin workshops for the theatre performance, The Magical Glow of the Co Op at Birmingham Rep. Over thirty people who attend hospices in Lichfield and in Birmingham have helped write a script based on their experiences that will be performed 4 and 5 June.