SHOOTING PAINS R&D - JULY/AUGUST 2023

Shooting Pains is a new play written and directed by Alice Fitzgerald (Best Director nominee at the 2022 Stage Debut Awards), based on her lived experience of scoliosis and chronic pain.

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It’s 2009. Eimear’s world is full of parties, WKD and Swedish House Mafia. And then everything changes. A coming-of-age play, Shooting Pains follows Eimear and Maisie as they navigate school, parties and their changing bodies.

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These photographs document how Alice worked with actors and creatives across a two-week R&D to explore and refine the play, working to create an empowered and authentic portrayal of spinal difference and challenging existing ableist representations.