Mission Statement
'Juxtaposing the glum and tediously drab with the wondrous and the mesmeric'
We are Scrub Up the Misery Theatre Company, final year Drama and Performance students at the University of Portsmouth. We are creating a digital theatre piece that focuses on mental health, substance misuse, and recovery; and the long term impact that a mothers suicide has on her young daughter.
We want to ensure that we're approaching these topics sensitively and truthfully. we want to ensure that our representation of substance abuse, the effects of that on a person and their child is done with due care and respect. Alongside this we want to ensure that our depiction of suicide is done in a careful and considered way. We'll be using trigger warnings from the outset, in our advertisements and at the end of the piece. We will be providing contact information fro organisations that can support people with the themes and issues that are raised, and for anyone affected by those.