From this material Tanya Myers, co-Artistic Director of Meeting Ground Theatre Company, was commissioned to create a play.

The result is a deeply touching, funny and unique play about life on a dementia ward from the perspective of the patients, the staff and visitors.

Following the success of a 15 performance run at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, in June 2013, an Arts Council England Strategic Touring grant was secured to enable the production to tour to 6 venues across England.

National Tour 2015

Reviews

★★★★
A bold, fine and courageous piece of work
The Stage

★★★★
Arresting…will not be easily forgotten
The Public Reviews (Exeter)

The cast are brilliant…..compassionately written
The Public Reviews (Leicester)

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

Enjoyed Inside Out of Mind today in Derby- really thought provoking play about ‪#dementia care. Definitely one to see @annedraya

Final performance of ‪@InsideOutOf tonight! Thanks ‪@MeetingGroundUK for such a thought provoking & important piece, good luck with the tour! @LakesideArts

@InsideOutOf ‪@LakesideArts Loved Inside out of mind, congratulations to Writer, cast & crew! Andrea ‪@_Kitchen_Sink

Can’t recommend enough seeing ‪@InsideOutOf, skillful & moving play of the multiple facets of ‪#dementia & care ‪@TheGulbenkian @AdelinaCoHe

 great play very honest, funny and yet sad ‪#dementia @HomeInsteadMaid

Thank you ‪@InsideOutOf ‪@LakesideArts for bringing such an insightful and moving piece of theatre to our stage @TheGulbenkian

@InsideOutOf innovative training for staff, todays performance ‪@Gulbenkian and a workshop gave (KCHT) care workers a voice. thank you @DrJoBrooke

Stunning performance at ‪@TheGulbenkian Chaos and yet somehow ordered. Outside looking in- a fresh perspective to familiarity ‪@NickyParkngton

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Cast & Creative Team

• Cast
• Creative Team

• 
  Robin Bowerman – Mr P. aka Gabriel Proust
  
  Joanna McLeod – Muriel, HCA Brenda
  
  Ulrike Johannson – Gertie, HCA Hazel
  
  Lily Lowe-Myers – Sophie
  
  Anna Motram – Anna Bissett, RGN Patricia
  
  Jim Findley – HCA Raj, Tom Bissett
  
  Rebecca D’Souza – Youth
  
  Maxine Finch – Elsie, RGN Grace
  
  Robin Simpson – HCA Keith, George, Dr. Dido
• 
  Tanya Myers – Writer & Director
  
  Stephen Lowe – Co-artistic Director
  
  Nettie Scriven – Designer
  
  Richard Statham – Lighting Designer
  
  Barret Hodgson – Digital Media Design
  
  David Wilson – Sound Design and original music composition
  
  Tom Mowat – Associate Sound Design
  
  Sean Myatt – Object Theatre Director
  
  Bisera Winters – Assistant Director
  
  Alistair Richardson Laurens (“Bungo”) – Production Manager
  
  Patricia Davenport – Company Stage Manager
  
  Richard “Moby” Renshaw – Technical Stage Manager/Deputy Stage Manager
  
  Alyssa Watts – Assistant Stage Manager/Wardrobe
  
  Irene Jade – Assistant Designer
  
  Isobel Hawson – Project Manager

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CREDITS

Inside Out of Mind was commissioned by the University of Nottingham and first performed at Nottingham Lakeside Arts in 2013.

Big thank you to Rosie Lesurf who appears as the ghost of Allouette, Magda Atheni for Magda’s voice. John Killick for his poetry, Sharon Howe, Andrea Ward and Sara Deacon for loaning IOOM half the props, Trina Bramman who created many of the props, and Olivia Morton who upholstered the chairs, Laura Hailes (uniforms), Staff on Care for the Elderly Ward at Nottingham;s Queens Medical Centre, Renal Supplies at Nottingham City Hospital,
Set Build – Visualscene Ltd.; Leicester, Kezia Scales, Simon Bailey, Joanna Lloyd our ethnographers, Sharon Thorpe, Institute of Mental Health (MIN minute taker), Vishal Gorecha, Quality Improvement Manager, East Midlands Strategic Clinical Network & Senate, NHS England,

For Becky Cullen, Poet in Residence, thanks go to her sponsor: Nottingham Trent University and the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.

On behalf of Nottingham Lakeside Arts:

Nick Stevenson, Arts Administration Intern
Ellie Cawthorne, Arts Marketing Intern
James Parkinson, Head of Business & Development
Sofia Nazar-Chadwick, Head of Audience Development & Marketing
Ian Perry, Box Office Manager
Kayleigh Chalcroft, Marketing Officer
Heather Murray, Marketing Assistant
Michelle Johnson, Executive & Programme Assistant

On behalf of University of Nottingham:

Tim Utton, Deputy Director, Communications
Debs Storey, Digital Communications Manager