Immerse yourself in three captivating plays that illuminate a historically overlooked area of women’s health. These newly commissioned audio plays by Courtney Conrad, Bryony Kimmings and Sara Shaarawi break the pervasive culture of silence around maternal mental health and probe vital questions about women’s experiences.

The project draws on groundbreaking new research led by Professor Hilary Marland, with Dr Kelly Couzens and Dr Fabiola Creed, and is informed by a variety of historical sources, including first hand testimonies from and by women in twentieth-century Britain.

MI DI ONCE BAWL FI DI BELLY WEH MI WAH DASH WEH NOW by COURTNEY CONRAD
Performed by Courtney Conrad

LORE by BRYONY KIMMINGS
Performed by Bryony Kimmings

SHE SUFFERS by SARA SHAARAWI
Performed by Alex Lowe, Jodie Mitchell, Hiftu Quasem, Victoria Moseley and Emily Stott

Produced by Fuel. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and Warwick University.

Content warning: these audio plays discuss distressing subjects, including postnatal mental illness, infanticide and death. We recommend that they are suitable for ages 16+.

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Join scientist Dr. Sandra Romero-Hidalgo, performance artist Raquel André and National Arts Partnership Manager at the Wellcome Trust, David Cahill Roots as they discuss making Belongingness – a global conversation about how we identify with each other and what they might tell us about ourselves. Putting themselves under the microscope, Raquel and Sandra used their genetic ancestry test results to explore what it might mean to belong.