Oh, Calm Down
1999. Lucy is in labour. She’s just been handed a document to sign and her sense of self is beginning to deteriorate.
2024. Claire is an art student. Her latest panic attack means her art course could be over. Oh, and she can’t stop contemplating her own mortality.
Claire and Lucy have OCD. But they don’t know that yet. Misdiagnosis, mistreatment and misinformation around OCD were rife in 1999… And still are now.
Charlotte Anne-Tilley
Charlotte Anne-Tilley is an award-winning actor, writer and producer. She trained at LAMDA and, since then, has been creating tragicomic theatre that combines quick-witted comic characters with gripping drama. Charlotte’s work has been showcased at Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh Fringe), The Space Arts Centre, Etcetera Theatre, the Old Red Lion Theatre and the Bread and Roses Theatre. Charlotte has won the OffWestEnd OffComm Award, 4theatre Best Debut Performance, Everything Theatre Award for Ingenuity and was nominated for Voice Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award. Charlotte also champions female and non-binary work across the performance industry and hosts the #FemiFringe Podcast.
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