DO WE become less brave as we get older? How can we teach our children to be brave when our world is crumbling around us and we don’t feel brave ourselves?
Those questions and more will be examined at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven tonight (Tuesday).
How To Be Brave is written by Newport writer Siân Owen and is based on her own experiences as a mother in a fast-changing and confusing world, as well as being a love letter to the city that made her.
The one-woman play is told through the eyes of Katie, a mum determined that her young daughter will never lose the powerful, fierce magic she arrived into the world with.
Katie herself has gone from a little girl who used to climb trees, ride bikes and go on adventures to an adult who worries about everything – and she is determined not to let the same happen to her daughter.
Riding her childhood BMX around Newport, she listens to the unheard voices of the city, and asks what the women who have gone before can teach her about how to be brave.
REVIEW: Read our review of How To Be Brave here.
The one-woman monologue is performed by Laura Dalgleish whose previous stage credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest and Swallows & Amazons and three tours of family favourite Horrible Histories.
She has also appeared on EastEnders and Call The Midwife.
How To Be Brave is directed by Catherine Paskell, Artistic Director of Dirty Protest theatre company.
She said: "The audience went wild for How To Be Brave when it was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and we knew we wanted to create a full-length drama from her beautiful short play."
Tickets are £8.50/£7.50, and the performance starts at 7.30pm.
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