5/17/2023 0 Comments Reasons to live matt haigIn the opening scenes, this becomes the cliff that the 24-year-old Younger Matt (Mike Noble, pictured, with Dilek Rose), suffering his first bout of depression and anxiety, scales with the intention of ending his life. Simon Daw’s versatile set initially suggests a sort of Salvador Dalí image of a disintegrating brain – a fragmented, oval shape supported on struts. Imagined conversations between Haig and his younger self became integral to the book and form the core of this well-intentioned new production from Sheffield Theatres and English Touring Theatre. T he novelist Matt Haig wrote his award-wining, bestselling 2015 memoir about depression and anxiety because, as he explains in the programme, he wanted “to sit down with an imagined reader – maybe my younger self – and try and give that hopeless person the hope they need”.
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