One to think about
3:53pm Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Theatre & Arts
One to think about
A FORMER London’s Burning star who accompanied his desperately ill ex-wife to Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic is coming to Swindon to talk about the experience.
Chris Larner, who played Vernon ‘Clingfilm’ Chivers in the long-running drama, took Allyson Lee, a former actress whose life was devastated by multiple sclerosis, to the clinic last year.
There, after reading text messages and cards from friends and loved ones, she took drugs prescribed to end her life.
Chris’s experience of being with her has become An Instinct For Kindness, a stage show in which he talks about the personal impact and wider ethical issues surrounding the subject.
He brings that show to the Arts Centre in Devizes Road on Thursday, February 9, starting at 8pm.
An Instinct For Kindness has been praised by many reviewers. One wrote: “It is its total lack of sentimentality that makes it so moving, and half the audience is in pieces long before the end.”
Another wrote: “Larner relates it all with a clear-eyed, occasionally funny, occasionally horrifying lack of sentimentality.”
An Instinct For Kindness starts at 8pm, and tickets cost £12.
The Arts Centre can be contacted on 01793 614837 and via www.swindon.gov.uk/artsandculture
