Penny Pepper: Lost in Spaces

Award-winning writer, performer and activist Penny Pepper presents her acclaimed one-woman show on the final date of its national tour as part of the Together! 2015 Disability History Month Festival. Directed by Fringe First winner, Bethany Pitts.

‘From childhood fun on the Hastings beach to teenage punky loner - letters from Morrissey to fanzine poet - childhood illness to disability activist - discovering sex, and hating Thatcher. Fast forward to award winning writer, Guardian contributor, Newsnight guest. This is a remarkable spoken word memoir and chronicle of our times.’

This is a final chance to catch a show that interweaves the personal and the universal, drawing on long-kept journals mixed with poetry, spoken word and music with composition and accompaniment by Joanne Cox. The show charts Pepper's life from fragile beginnings in the 60s, facing illness and disappointment, to fighting Thatcher in 80s Britain, finding new friends and independence in a hard-won move to London, corresponding with Morrissey and immersion in the indie music scene with her iconic band Spiral Sky.

In a tumultuous, life-long quest to carve out her own unique space in our contrary world, all strands and spaces come full circle to current battles with the government’s harsh austerity measures. Labels are subverted, barriers are broken. Spaces are redefined. Friends and lovers found – and lost. From the haunting Hymn to Daddy, to the raging sarcasm of Handbagged and a very personal invite to Cripplegate Town, Penny Pepper's work provides a remarkable chronicle of our times.