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.

On the film front, Night and Day is nearing completion for its preview screening at the Electric Cinema 29th June. One of the hospice participants in this film is sadly no longer with us. We are often asked what it’s like to work with people who might die in the course of a project - to which we answer: sad, sometimes very sad, but rarely surprising. In fact the proximity of death often heightens the intensity of these encounters on film, leaving room only for what most matters in the here and now.