PreScribed (a life written for me)
PreScribed (a life written for me) explores the side effects of being a GP navigating an NHS in meltdown.
Viv was commissioned by The Elizabeth Blackwell Institute at University of Bristol to work with researchers Ruth Riley and Johanna Spiers and make a show for the Feel It Festival 2016.
​Viv’s own lived experience of mental ill health, combined with verbatim extracts from anonymised research transcripts, creates a powerful account of a GP on the brink of a crisis.
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"Everyday I engage in a rapid series of one way interactions in which....
                                            I
                                                Don't
                                                       Matter"
​PreScribed was at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 (Zoo venues) and then touring to arts and health conferences and GP trainings nationally.
"Honest, insightful and revealing" - Sally Stott in The Scotsman

​Find out more:
Watch the trailer, ​Read the researchers blog in the British Journal of General Practitioners, Read the Exuent review
Written by Viv Gordon
Performed by Viv Gordon & Mandy Braden
Directed by Tom Roden and Chris Fogg
Music consultant and original composition by Thomas Johnson
Design consultancy by Bex Wood
Lighting design by Will Monks
Produced by Sarah Blowers for Strike A Light and Georgia Bladon for Elizabeth Blackwell Institute
Based on original research conceived and led by Ruth Riley with research carried out by Johanna Spiers

Funded by Arts Council England, University of Bristol & Wellcome Trust