Other

From the outset, everyone thought that Tobias was a good boy with a positive future ahead of him: his friends; his Primary School teachers; and most of all his Mum, Caroline. By the time he reaches adulthood he has been arrested, sectioned and treated in a medium secure mental health unit. What went wrong?

Other traces Tobias’s life in reverse, from his arrest and sectioning back through to his childhood. A fascinating and intensely moving performance, highlighting the missed opportunities for intervention in his life. The play asks searching questions about the identity of those people who don’t fit into the neat boxes on monitoring forms and whether it needs to be like this for young people of dual heritage?

Written by Lorna Laidlaw.

Performance followed by 45 minute Theatre Workshop.

This is part of a 300 Voices pilot project in the West Midlands to tackle the stigma and discrimination that young African and Caribbean men face when accessing in patient mental health care, delivered in collaboration with performing arts company The Hearth Centre.