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This play is based on true stories by people with direct experience of cancer. The writer calls them 'love stories' and tells them with the sensitivity and care they deserve. Nell Dunn, well known for her controversial plays Up the Junction and Steaming, wrote this play after her father had died of cancer. She felt that she had not communicated well with him and became interested in how people relate to each other during a crisis. Cancer Tales is about communication and relationships, love and caring, life and death. Both Nell Dunn and Trevor Walker, the play’s director will take part in a panel discussion after the staging of two ‘Cancer Tales’. The TV and news presenter Anna Ford and Jed Mercurio doctor turned author and screenwriter of the acclaimed TV series ‘Bodies’ will also sit on the panel.

Creatives/Company

Author: Nell Dunn
Director: Trevor Walker