Gutted

Liz Richarson is an actor, theatre-maker and comedian. She trained at East 15 Acting School and performed regularly with improvisation company The Factory for 6 years before moving back north to her roots. Her one-woman show Gutted, co-created by theatre-maker and director Tara Robinson, debuted at HOME in Manchester and after a sell-out run was recommissioned for a second run in summer 2017 and went on to the Edinburgh Fringe.Tara Robinson is the artistic lead and founder of The Conker Group. She divides her time between creating new work with them and other freelance roles including her current position as Resident Associate Artist with Boundless Theatre. She is an ongoing creative associate at the Gate Theatre in London, and a supported artist with Farnham Maltings, a former Resident Assistant Director at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin and a former Associate Director for the Michael Grandage Company

Funny, important & moving...all at once a fond rallying cry for the importance of the NHS, a rebuttal to the damaging culture of shame and silence surrounding the kind of illnesses you can't bring up at the dinner table, and some brilliant character comedy from Richardson, a talented performer with real verve... a show with as much heart as guts, as much about being well as being ill. It's about the privilege of having a body that does what we want it to - one that can be used, unthinkingly, to live.