A reduced version of the play about Alan Hopgood’s battle with prostate cancer, which, incidentally, led to the creation of ‘HealthPlay’.
Starring Margot Knight, Matthew King or Peter Curtin and Alan Hopgood who will chair the FORUM after the play.
2. Wicked Widows
What happens when three widows of different age and experience meet for a lunch with a surprise twist?.... Laughter, a positive message, appreciation and acceptance of their loss and a wicked comment on widowhood.
Written by Alan Hopgood from the research of Dr Susan Feldman who will chair the FORUM after the play.
Starring Babs McMillan, Kirsty Child and Margot Knight or Jenny Seedsman.
3. Four Funerals In One Day
A young palliative care nurse encounters her first patient requesting euthanasia. But her request for advice from her elders reveals an interesting twist.
Written by Alan Hopgood (in collaboration with Molly Carlile who will chair the FORUM after the play)
Starring Babs McMillan, Michelle Hall, Margot Knight or Jenny Seedsman and Alan Hopgood.
4. A Pill, A Pump And A Needle
Maggie Millar told her story of late life diagnosis of type 2 diabetes to Alan Hopgood, who combined it with the story of two other women to present this story of 3 women with varying experiences of diabetes.
A FORUM follows the play.
Starring Babs McMillan or Maggie Millar, Margot Knight and Michelle Hall.
5. Six Degrees Of Diabetes
Following the success of the women’s play, audiences asked for a play about men with diabetes, which resulted in this story of three journalists in a pub discussing diabetes, the ‘epidemic of the 21st century’.
Written by Alan Hopgood.
Starring Matthew King, Hamish Hughes and Alan Hopgood or Denis Moore.
A FORUM follows the play.
6. Never Too Old
Two old men in a nursing home are taken on a surprise excursion by a caring nurse, which proves that you are… never too old.
Written by Alan Hopgood.
Starring Kirsty Child, Denis Moore or Matthew King and Alan Hopgood.
7. My Dog has Stripes
Case workers meet to discuss their patients,
unaware that one of their team is in need of help.
This latest addition to HealthPlay concerns
depression and mental illness – conditions which, if talked about more openly, would help reduce the stigma often associated with them.
Written by Alan Hopgood (in association with Tania Nahum)
Starring Margot Knight, Marcella Russo, Paul English and Alan Hopgood
The play is supported by beyondblue.
"Hoppy's Heroes"
The documentary of the South Australian tour of For Better for Worse.
