The play trying to make the world a little bit less rubbish

Award-winning theatre company Silent Uproar is bringing its critically acclaimed musical cabaret about depression to Havant after wowing crowds and critics alike at last year's Edinburgh Fringe.
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is at The Spring Arts Centre in Havant on October 3, 2108A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is at The Spring Arts Centre in Havant on October 3, 2108
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is at The Spring Arts Centre in Havant on October 3, 2108

Written by Olivier award winner Jon Brittain (Rotterdam, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho) with music by Matthew Floyd Jones (Frisky and Mannish), prepare to laugh, cry and even get a song or two stuck in your head at A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) .

Influenced by the company's personal experiences and informed by interviews with people living with mental health problems and medical professionals, it's a joyful, buoyant, gleeful, slightly silly, sugar coated, unrelenting and completely super happy show! Except for all the bits about depression.

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The show is supported by NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group, which has not only funded the performances at the University of Hull to raise awareness of mental health issues among students, but also arranged for the cast and crew to have mental health awareness training via Hull and East Yorkshire MIND. Silent Uproar is also hoping to have mental healthcare professionals at each performance so anybody affected by the issues in the show will be able to talk to somebody afterwards.

Alex Mitchell, artistic director of Silent Uproar says: '˜We wanted to make a show that was entertaining, accessible and discussed depression without being a depressing show. From suffering with anxiety and bouts of depression, and seeing friends and loved ones suffer, I wanted something that said: 'Do you know what? It doesn't matter if you feel rubbish today, it's okay not to be okay. And most of all it's okay to talk about it because the talking helps'.'

Dan Roper, chairman of NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group, adds: '˜Approximately one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year and worries about things like money, jobs and benefits can make it harder for people to cope. 

'˜There is a growing body of research evidencing the positive role of the arts on health and wellbeing. We also know there is a strong link between poverty and mental health, yet low income can be a barrier to accessing the arts. By allowing audience members to pay what they can afford, this barrier is being removed, in effect putting them in control of their own social prescription.'

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The comedic and production style of the show draws from sources as diverse as Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Pixar's Inside Out, Juno, and musicals like Cabaret and Chicago.

Silent Uproar is a Hull-based company, commissioning writers to create playful and provocative work.

The show won the Fringe First Award and Best Musical Award at last year's Edinburgh Fringe.

A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)

The Spring Arts Centre, Havant

Wednesday, October 3 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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