Things I Can Laugh About Now
By Shakira Newton
Year staged: 2022
Theatre Company: Piece of Cake Theatre Company
Staged in: Brixton House
Cast Size: 1
Synopsis
Girl is an old soul; but as a British, mixed-race, working-class, queer woman in her mid-twenties, it wasn’t exactly her choice to grow up so fast. Is humour a good healthy coping mechanism for deteriorating mental health? Maybe not. But hey, at least she’s finally talking about it with someone! Things I Can Laugh About Now is a tragicomedy that contains themes of domestic abuse, suicide, mental illness, and has strong language from the offset… but like most things in life, we’ll learn to laugh that all off.
Original Cast
Shakira Newton
Girl
Production Team
Carlo Feliciani Ojeda
Director
Adriana Perucca
Sound Designer / Stage Manager
Nicola Chang
Sound Design Consultant
Rebekah Murrell
Associate Director
Rajiv Pattani
Lighting Design Consultant
Henry Boothroyd
Sound Associate
Nevison Kusokora
Sound Associate
Eve Shalaman
Lighting Associate
Ruth Hawkins
Senior Producer (Brixton House)
Ben Quashie
Producer (Brixton House)
Amber Hill
Digital Marketing and Communications (Brixton House)
Jerome Noel
Marketing and Communications Coordinator (Brixton House)
Piece of Cake Productions
Creative Producers