Operating Theatre are a North East based company that provide bespoke theatrical experiences that can transform the way people think about health and well being.

Making for the Light is a 30 minute play about living with epilepsy. It follows the story of Ella, an artist living with epilepsy. A groundbreaking treatment offers her a chance to make for the light and live symptom free, but will it alter who she is?

Making for the Light was first performed at Live Theatre Studio, Newcastle upon Tyne on 22nd November 2018.

Cast: Rachel Gay and Gary Kitching

Director: Alex Elliott

Writers: Alex Elliott and Carol Clewlow

AV Technician: Craig Davidson

If you would like to perform the play, please email michael.white2@ncl.ac.uk. No fee will be charged for performance rights. No alterations may be made to in the title or the text of the play without the author's prior written consent.

For the launch of our public engagement, Operating Theatre produced a short five minute drama sketch introducing the topic and history of epilepsy.  It is written for two characters to be performed on a stage but can be adapted or performed as a piece for voices.

The script is available to download and perform and would be suitable as an introduction for an epilepsy linked event or even a school assembly.

The piece was written as a percursor to the longer play Making for the Light that explores life with epilepsy.