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How To Be Immortal by Mira Dovreni
Project type
Play (80 minutes)
Date
2015
Location
The Albany Deptford, Soho Theatre London & National UK tour
My first full length play was inspired by the life of Henrietta Lacks, whose immortal cells helped code human DNA and find a cure for too many diseases to list. But what did her life (and subsequent immortality) mean to the daughter she left behind?
Its also about a musician friend of mine, who lost her partner to cancer shortly after the birth of their child. How she managed to remember and reconnect - finally - through his DNA and a piece of music she made out of it for their daughter to listen to.
With Claire Perkins, produced by Soho Theatre & the Albany Deptford, the play ran at both those venues before touring to over 35 theatres throughout the UK
