CROWDED ROOM THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCE TRANSFER OF HARRIET MADELEY’S AWARD-WINNING SOLO SHOW OUTPATIENT TO LOWRY

BASED ON MADELEY’S EXPERIENCE OF GETTING DIAGNOSED WITH A LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS WHILST WORKING ON A PROJECT ABOUT DEATH, OUTPATIENT IS AN EMOTIVE AND PROVACTIVE COMEDY ABOUT THE HUMAN STRUGGLE TO FACE MORTALITY

OUTPATIENT PREMIERED AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL IN AUGUST 2024, WHERE IT SOLD OUT & WON THE SUMMERHALL LUSTRUM AWARD FOR UNFORGETTABLE THEATRE

“I’ve always been quietly convinced that it’ll never happen to me.
 Like I know it will to you but it’s sort of like 
‘OK, we’ll see about me’.”

Following critically-acclaimed productions at Lowry including The Listening Room (2019) and EDITH (2023), Crowded Room announce that their brand new production Outpatient will transfer to Lowry’s Aldridge Studio from 6th-9th November. The first solo show from Harriet Madeley, Outpatient will be performed at 8pm on 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th November with an additional matinee performance at 3pm on 9th November. 

For more information and for details of how to book, please visit thelowry.com

Written by Harriet Madeley and directed by Madelaine Moore, Outpatient tells the story of ham-fisted journalist Olive, who is attempting to interview dying people for her ‘hot take’ article on mortality. Olive is determined that we should all get better at talking about death, because really why is it such a big deal…  until she gets diagnosed with a life-threatening illness of her own, which she can’t deal with at all. Harriet began writing the show in 2021 after a life-altering diagnosis with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis led her to implode her life.

Outpatient will be performed by its writer Harriet Madeley and directed by Madelaine Moore. Sound will be designed by Bella Kear; lighting and projection by Megan Lucas; stage management Jessica Taylor.