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National Tour Of Inside Out Of Mind
Transforming dementia care through theatre
In the UK 225,000 people develop dementia every year. By the end of 2015 850,000 people
will have dementia; 1 million by 2025. There are 670,000 carers of people with dementia in
the UK. The financial cost of dementia to the UK is £26.3 billion per annum.
Meeting Ground Theatre Company and Nottingham Lakeside Arts will tour Inside Out of
Mind, an insightful and darkly comic play that powerfully captures the multiple realities of
life on a dementia ward, to six venues across England from Wednesday 18 February to
Friday 27 March 2015. The tour follows the success of a limited run in 2013 that resulted in
an Arts Council England Strategic Touring Grant.
The production is based on and inspired by the extensive observational research material
compiled from an academic study into healthcare wards of NHS Hospitals treating patients
with dementia by social scientists at the University of Nottingham’s Institute of Mental
Health.
Welcome to the ward with no name… A theatre of magical, medical realism. A fusion of
love stories, crisscrossing time and space, where walls turn into forests; thunder to gunfire;
books to birds; with untold stories kept under their wings. Nurses come, nurses go carrying, folding, and keeping the continuum of person-centred care and its fragile
emotional legacy in tact.
Inside Out of Mind is a multi-layered illustration of life within dementia care from the
perspective of patients, carers and visitors. It offers glimpses into a mysterious world,
touching on some of the profound themes associated with dementia including time, identity,
loss, relationships, power and death.
Writer and director Tanya Myers (co-Artistic Director of Meeting Ground Theatre Company)
not only echoes the research observations in the play’s characters and scenes but she also
uses the medium of theatre, with all its scope for illusion and magic, to engage the
audience’s emotions, fostering empathy for staff and patients, while giving pause for
reflection and intuitive listening.
Inside Out of Mind is an inspiring and collaborative theatre project that took three years to
evolve, bringing together Meeting Ground Theatre Company, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, The
University of Nottingham and the NHS to tackle the challenge of dementia care.
A number of local health care trusts see Inside Out of Mind as an innovative and engaging
way to raise the skills and awareness of their basic-grade staff, health care assistants, who
figure importantly in the play. At each venue on tour (see schedule below) there will be
dedicated NHS staff performances and post show discussions, with tickets being sponsored
by the trusts.
Inside Out of Mind has been designed by Nettie Scriven; with lighting design by Richard
Statham, digital media design by Barret Hodgson and original music and sound design by
David Wilson. Meeting Ground Theatre Company are collaborating with award-winning film
makers we are caravan -www.wearecaravan.co.uk - to create a filmed version of the play.
The plan is to distribute the film to cinemas, care homes and hospitals across the UK to
ensure as wide a viewing as possible of this remarkable piece of work.
For more information on the 2015 tour of Inside Out of Mind and Meeting Ground Theatre
Company go to – http://www.meetinggroundtheatrecompany.co.uk/
For more information on Nottingham Lakeside Arts go to - http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/
Twitter - @meetinggroundUK / @InsideOutof / @LakesideArts - #InOutMind
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NATIONAL TOUR 2015 LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Venue: DERBY THEATRE, 15 Theatre Walk, St Peter's Quarter, Derby, DE1 2NF
Dates: Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 February 2015
Times: Wed 18 – 19:30 with Post show discussion
Thurs 19 & Fri 20 – 10:00 & 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCES with post show discussions
Sat 21 - 19.30
Ticket Prices: £11 - £25
Box Office: 01322 593939 / derbytheatre.co.uk
Venue: NOTTINGHAM LAKESIDE ARTS, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
Dates: Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 February 2015
Times: Tue 24 - 19.30
Thu 26 & Fri 27 – 10:00 & 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCES with post show discussions
Sat 28 – 19:30
Ticket Prices: £11 -£15
Box Office: 0115 846 7777 / lakesidearts.org.uk
Venue: GULBENKIAN, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NB
Dates: Tuesday 3 – Friday 6 March 2015
Times Tue 3 - 1930 with Post Show Discussion
Wed 4 – 10:00 & 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCES with post show discussions
Thu 5 – 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussion
Fri 6 - 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussions & 19:30
Ticket Prices: £7 - £12
Box Office: 01227 769075 / thegulbenkian.co.uk
Venue: WARWICK ARTS CENTRE, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
Dates: Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 March 2015
Times: Tue 10 - 19:45 with post show discussion
Wed 11 - 10:00 & 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCES with post show discussions
Thu 12 - 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussion & 19:45
Fri 13 - 10:00 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussion
Ticket Prices: £12.50 - £19
Box Office: 024 7652 4524 / warwickartscentre.co.uk
Venue: EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QB
Dates: Tuesday 17 – Friday 20 March 2015
Times: Tue 17 - 19:30 with post show discussion
Wed 18 - 10:00 & 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCES with post show discussions
Thu 19 - 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussion
Fri 20 - 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussion & 19:30
Ticket Prices: £15
Box Office: 01392 493493 / exeternorthcott.co.uk / boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk
Venue: CURVE, 60 Rutland Street, Leicester LE1 1SB
Dates: Tuesday 24 – Friday 27 March 2015
Times: Tue 24 – 19:45 with Post Show Discussion
Wed 25 - 10:00 & 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCES with post show discussions
Thu 26 14:30 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussion & 19:45
Fri 27 - 10:00 NHS PERFORMANCE with post show discussion
Ticket Prices: £12 - £16
Box Office: 0116 242 3595 / curveonline.co.uk
Notes to Editors:
Inside Out of Mind – a brief history
In 2011, Professor Justine Schneider and colleagues at the Institute of Mental Health,
University of Nottingham, published the results of a study of dementia wards, based on
600,000 words of observational field notes. From this material Tanya Myers was
commissioned to write a play with the aim of impacting positively on the care of people with
dementia whilst highlighting the skills and compassion of the caring professionals working
with dementia patients.
Following the success of an initial limited run of 15 performances at Nottingham Lakeside
Arts, University of Nottingham, in June 2013, Inside Out of Mind and associated training
activity will tour nationally to Derby Theatre; Nottingham Lakeside Arts; Gulbenkian Theatre,
Canterbury; Warwick Arts Centre; Northcott Theatre, Exeter; Curve, Leicester in February
and March 2015.
The first run of Inside Out of Mind took place at Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, from
June 14-29, 2013. Many of the tickets were financed by local Health Trusts, who saw the
play as an innovative and engaging way to raise the skills and awareness of their basic-grade
staff, health care assistants, who figure importantly in the play. Care home staff and home
care workers were also encouraged to attend.
Alzheimer’s Society research statistics - http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
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By 2015 there will be 850,000 people with dementia in the UK.
225,000 people develop dementia every year, that's roughly one person every three
minutes…
There will be 1 million people with dementia in the UK by 2025.
There are 670,000 carers of people with dementia in the UK.
The financial cost of dementia to the UK is £26.3 billion per annum.
Two thirds of the cost of dementia is picked up by people with dementia and their
families. Family carers of people with dementia save the UK £11 billion a year.
Two thirds of people with dementia live in the community while one third live in a
care home.
80 % of people living in care homes have a form of dementia or severe memory
problems.
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60,000 deaths a year are directly attributable to dementia. Delaying the onset of
dementia by five years would reduce deaths directly attributable to dementia by
30,000 a year.
No two people with dementia are the same. Services need to reflect the needs of
individuals.
There are 40,000 younger people with dementia in the UK.
There are 25,000 people with dementia from black and minority ethnic groups in the
UK.
Two thirds of people with dementia are women.
The proportion of people with dementia doubles for every five-year age group.
One in six people aged 80 and over have dementia.
Only 44% of people with dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive a
diagnosis