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valjeans · 2 years

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okay so i have been carefully researching this and i think the covers on the les mis tour will be as follows:

valjean: 1. will barratt 2. harry chandler

javert: jordan simon pollard earl carpenter (i am unwilling to speculate on whether jordan will be demoted to make way for earl. i assume that’s what cammack will want but im not sure earl would want to be first cover esp since nic seems to take a lot more time off than bradley so he’d certainly end up with a lot more shows)

fantine: 1. tessa kadler 2. olivia brereton (unsure of the order of this. interestingly this does not follow the pattern of the london fantine understudies)

thenardier: 1. dean read 2. adam boardman (this is the opposite way around to the west end...idk if that’s interesting to other people or not)

marius: 1. caleb lagayan 2. joseph mcdonnell (caleb is confirmed first cover, assuming joseph is second as he was before covid)

enjolras: 1. harry chandler 2. abel law (harry is definitely first cover. using the same logic i applied to marius to assume that abel is second cover)

eponine: 1. jenna innes 2. aimee good (this is how it was before covid so assuming it’ll be the same)

cosette: 1. rebecca ferrin 2. rebecca bolton (rebecca ferrin is confimed. rebecca bolton was second cover before covid so im assuming it’ll be the same)

madame thenardier: 1. zabrina norry??? 2. emily owens (absolutely speculating on first cover as she appears to be the only slightly older female ensemble member and that is usually who ends up being first cover)

#will update if i find out any details are wrong #les mis

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funkita · 3 years

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Meg Bailey in top form at the NSW State Championships

It was a big three days of racing at the NSW State Championships which were held at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre from March 18-21st.

Top swimmers from around the country travelled interstate for a chance to squeeze in as much racing as possible before Nationals next month and the Olympic Trials in June. In order to offer the swimmers a chance to race in similar conditions to the upcoming Olympic Games, the meet had a different format with Heats held at night and Finals run in the morning.

NSW native Meg Bailey was a standout, winning her 400m IM by over 4 seconds with an impressive time of 4:40.9 and winning another gold in her 200m Butterfly event with a time of 2:10.39.

Katja Dedekind had a massive meet, smashing her 50m Freestyle coming away with gold in a time of 27.83. She also won her 400m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke events, proving she’s in good form leading up to the Paralympic Trials.

In the 200m Breaststroke event Tessa Wallace touched the wall in a time of 2:27.69 behind Jenna Strauch and Abbey Harkin. In a tight 50m Breaststroke event Tessa came third in a time of 31.42 only .37 behind winner Georgia Bohl. Tessa also won Bronze in the 200m IM behind Kaylee McKeown and Tara Kinder.

West Australian F-Teamer Holly Barratt had an amazing finish in the 50m Backstroke event to claim Silver only 0.01 behind Madi Wilson and touching out Emily Seebohm by only 0.01 as well!

16-year-old Lulu Macleod joined some big names in the 4 x 100m Medley and 4 x 200m Freestyle relays. With Jessica Madden, Lani Pallister and Emma McKeon, Lulu won Gold having swum a great final 200m Freestyle leg. She also helped her team win Silver by swimming the Freestyle leg in the medley relay.

#funkita #funkitablog #nsw states #NSW State Champs #swimming

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thesydneyfeminists · 6 years

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Why Chronic Illness is a Feminist Issue

When people hear of conditions like Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Endometriosis and Lupus, they are often only vaguely aware of what they are and almost always ignorant of how they affect individual sufferers. There are so many different illnesses out there and no one person can know of all of them. But the above mentioned are in fact quite common, and I bet you know of someone who has at least one of these syndromes/diseases.

You might assume that, given their prevalence, a great deal of research and funding has gone into these illnesses, but the opposite is true. These conditions primarily affect women, and medicine was and still is a largely male-dominated field, from almost all-male animal studies to majority male human studies. The gatekeepers to the profession are also mostly men, meaning they are less likely to study illnesses that especially affect women. Indeed, non-life threatening illnesses dominated by female patients often lack funding and research and are poorly understood by GPs and specialists alike.

In Maya Dunsenbery’s new book, “Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed and Sick”, the historical reasons for this stark gender bias in research are laid out, along with the long-reaching consequences that affect women to this day. While some progress has been made in recent decades to address the problem, serious issues remain, right from the preclinical start. On the topic of animal models, she writes:

“The persistence of male animal models is especially troubling when it comes to conditions that are more common among women. As the authors of a 2009 review of the male bias in basic pain research concluded, given that women are disproportionately impacted by chronic pain disorders, ‘one could argue that preclinical research that excludes females is incomplete at best or invalid at worst’. Nevertheless, a 2005 study found that nearly 80% of animal pain studies published in recent years had used only males”.

The argument most often given for all-male models in rats and mice is that females have hormonal cycles that could muddy results. The same argument was used to exclude women from studies, and still is used to exclude menstruating or pregnant women. But think of how ridiculous that argument is. If the problem is that the female physiology is different in that it’s affected by hormonal cycles, then isn’t it essential that we do all-female studies on a new drug or treatment? Shouldn’t we investigate how a dose of medicine could have different effects on the female body than the male (we do this for alcohol) or how symptoms of say, a heart attack differ in men than they do for women? I could go on and on with examples, but the fact remains that women are dying because sex-based differences are NOT being explored, because male is assumed to be the default. You can’t have it both ways.

Dusenbery writes, “…if the results of the study do vary significantly due to fluctuations in ovarian hormones, that’s all the more reason females needs to be studied, no matter the cost”.

The reality is that right from the get-go, women are left behind in medical research and therefore treatment, and it’s even worse for women of colour and low-income women. There are also persistent attitudes towards women’s pain and suffering, stemming from long-held myths surrounding hysteria (now known as “conversion disorder”) and that women are just delicate beings who suffer more from imagined problems (the “it’s all in your head” argument has pernicious roots). Women with Fibromyalgia and other similar ailments are often dismissed or given the wrong treatment.

In her piece, “Chronic Pain and the Denial of Care for Black Women,” Alexandra Moffett-Bateau writes, “In an article for the New York Times, Laurie Edwards, author of In the Kingdom of the Sick, argues that women are sent to therapists, instead of provided pain management, in large part because they are frequently assumed to be overly emotional and hysterical by emergency room doctors. When the patient is young, Black, and feminine-of-center, her assumed lack of believability is compounded by the intersection of her identities.”

There are few, if any areas in life, that aren’t affected by sexism and discrimination. As a woman-identifying person navigating this world, you can’t be thinking about how the patriarchy is affecting every facet of your life – it’s too exhausting, and depressing, to continuously contemplate. But we DO need to think about how gender bias in medicine is affecting our healthcare. Women are falling through the cracks and many are dying as a result of this criminal lack of care and understanding. If the system doesn’t fail them and lead to their suffering or death, some simply give up after a long, fruitless journey, and take their own lives.

Chronic illnesses that primarily affect women are being underfunded and under researched and that needs to change, not just because it’s unjust, but because this bias against properly investigating and understanding women’s health conditions is something that negatively affects us all. As feminists, we need to advocate for better rules and policies governing the way medical studies are performed, analysed and taught. Advocacy groups around the world have been fighting hard for better inclusion and representation of women and other groups within mainstream medical research, but they need public support in order to be successful.

“It’s important to remember the role that grassroots advocacy played in getting the knowledge gap on the radar to begin with, Pinn says. ‘It was advocacy by individual women, groups of women and then women in positions of power’ – within the biomedical community and Congress – ‘who really brought forward the concept of women’s health’. They challenged women’s exclusion from clinical research, demanded greater attention to neglected women’s conditions, and raised the concern that there may be important sex/gender differences that ‘hadn’t been considered important enough to study’”. [Doing Harm, pg 57].

While we have made progress over the decades, there is still a long way to go. So next time you see a fundraiser for a woman-dominated illness, please consider donating. Write to your representative about the importance of stronger rules that force medical institutions to include women and minority groups in their research. Support your local women’s health centre or advocacy group. Get active and get out there. Without pressure from the people, things aren’t going to advance any further. It’s time to stop leaving women behind in healthcare.

Tessa Barratt is the President of The Sydney Feminists. She is also a sufferer of Fibromyalgia, Myofascial Pain Syndrome and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Like most people with chronic pain, she is tired of the endless carousel of doctors and specialists who appear to know nothing about her illnesses, and is on a quest this year to advocate for better research in women’s health.

May 12th is International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.

#chronic illness #spoonie #women's health #women's healthcare #gender bias #gender bias in medicine #gender bias in health research #sexism #feminism #Doing Harm #Maya Dusenbery #Fibromyalgia #Fibromyalgia Awareness Day #ME/CFS #healthcare studies on women

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londontheatre · 7 years

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Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow) and Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan), photo Tristram Kenton

After the sensation of Oklahoma Rodgers and Hammerstein pushed the dramatic boundaries even further with their next production Carousel. The contrast with some of the bland story-lite jukebox musicals around London and Broadway today could not be greater. In many ways, certainly in respect of the book, Carousel has more in common with opera than it does with conventional musical theatre. But that was the Rodgers and Hammerstein way. They never took the easy route and all of their works were original and most tackled difficult themes. Here suicide, the afterlife, spouse abuse and serious crime. There is feeling galore but no sentiment. Mamma Mia it is not!

There is no comfort zone in Carousel. The beautiful songs are placed in the context of dysfunctional characters and a challenging plot line. Billy Bigelow is an anti-hero with some of the macho bravado we were later to see with Brando in On the Waterfront and the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story. The Bernstein masterwork owes much to the earlier ground-breaking book and lyrics works of Oscar Hammerstein – from Showboat onwards and above all in his partnership with Richard Rodgers. Stephen Sondheim – lyricist of West Side Story – learned his craft at the feet of Hammerstein.

This new production of Carousel by the English National Opera at the Coliseum is excellent in every way. It is “semi-staged” which means only, I think, that there are no complex sets. It’s the first production of the musical I have seen which doesn’t have an actual carousel on the stage at any point! But it is represented well with the clever use of the revolve and props. The absence of clever tricks actually makes one concentrate more on the music, the drama and the performances. The latter are very good. Katherine Jenkins was quite superb as Julie Jordan. Her voice is perfect for the part; she acts well and looks lovely. Alfie Boe’s Bigelow was powerful and lyrical and he also looked good. It was a surprise when after Act One there was an announcement that he had a fever and couldn’t continue. His understudy Will Barrett filled in well in Act Two in which the character only has one solo anyway.

The Prologue is enhanced by a beautifully choreographed and danced routine which is an early reminder that one of the innovations of Rodgers and Hammerstein early musicals was dance – often on the cusp of modern dance and ballet. Josh Rhodes choreography is superb throughout with, I think, references back to Agnes de Mille’s work on the original 1945 production. One of the benefits of an opera company doing musical theatre is that you can be sure that the chorus will sing and act well – and they certainly do here. Richard Rodgers’ score and Oscar Hammerstein’s lyrics have to shine through the action, so good are they. Here they do with the voice amplification – de rigueur in musicals always absent in opera – effective and adding clarity to the sound. The distinction between musical theatre and opera has always been blurred – where does one end and the other begin?

Here we have a skilled theatre and musical theatre director, Lonny Price, working with an opera company and it seems seamless. Add in the fact that while Alfie Boe has a solid background both in musical theatre and opera for Katherine Jenkins this was her theatre debut. Her voice we knew to be wonderful but her talent in character on the stage had been hidden. This will, I’m sure, be the beginning of a stage career which could perhaps cross the divide between musical theatre and opera. Why not?

Centre Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow) and Company, photo Tristram Kenton

Carousel does not need to be a “star vehicle” – although the presence of Boe and Jenkins and Nicholas Lyndhurst (in a fairly minor non-singing role) as “names” will no doubt bring the punters in. If for many customers this is their first exposure to Carousel or even to Rodgers and Hammerstein (The Sound of Music perhaps excepted) then I hope that they got a feel for how good the genre is. And if so I hope that we will regularly see more of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals on the London stage. The production of the rarely performed Allegro at the Southwark Playhouse last year showed that there are hidden gems in the oeuvre which can benefit from revival.

Carousel has a limited run to 13th May 2017. Try and see it if you can!

Review by Paddy Briggs

When the charming Carousel Barker, Billy Bigelow falls in love with Julie Jordan, little do they realise that their relationship will end in tragedy. Fifteen years after getting caught up in an armed robbery, Billy gets the chance to redeem his past and restore pride to his family.

Lonny Price (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sunset Boulevard) returns to the Coliseum to direct a strictly limited run of 41 performances.

The cast for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between The GradeLinnit Company and English National Opera (ENO), comprises Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan), Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Star Keeper), Derek Hagen (Jigger Craigin), Alex Young (Carrie Pipperidge), Brenda Edwards (Nettie Fowler), Gavin Spokes (Enoch Snow), Susan Kyd (Mrs Mullin), Amy Everett (Louise), Davide Fienauri (Carnival Boy) and Martyn Ellis (Mr Bascombe).

Lonny Price will direct the season of 41 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum. Beginning on 7 April 2017, with press night on 11 April 2017 at 7pm, the final performance in this strictly limited five-week run takes place on 13 May 2017. ENO award-winning 40-piece orchestra and chorus, conducted by David Charles Abell, will accompany the cast in this semi-staged version. Tickets for Carousel are £12 – £110, with over 100 available at £12 for every performance.

Further cast members are Bruce Aguilar Rohan, Thomas Audibert, Will Barratt, Jay Bryce, Danielle Cato, Jacob Chapman, Nolan Edwards, Alexander Evans, Lizzi Franklin, Alice Jane, Tessa Kadler, Hannah Kenna Thomas, Jasmine Leung, Molly Lynch, Leisha Mollyneaux, Rachel Muldoon, Saori Oda, Kane Oliver Parry, Daniel Perry, Alastair Postlethwaite, Joseph Poulton, Verity Quade, Genevieve Taylor, James Titchener, Adam Vaughan, Matthew Whennell-Clark and Anna Woodside.

London Coliseum St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4ES Booking From: 7th Apr 2017 Booking Until: 13th May 2017

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funkita · 3 years

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2021 Open Nationals Wrap Up

It was a big week of racing up on the Gold Coast at the 2021 Australian Swimming Championships with our F-Teamers taking on massive race schedules across the five days. After a tumultuous year, it was an excellent opportunity for the swimmers to see where they're sitting in the lead up to Trials that will take place in June in Adelaide.

Highlights from the event included Commonwealth Games swimmer Meg Bailey and dual Olympian Blair Evans pushing each other in the 400m IM to claim Silver and Bronze respectively. 2012 Olympian and Commonwealth Games Silver medallist Tessa Wallace had a successful Nationals campaign winning Silver in the 50m Breaststroke and the 200m IM where she finished behind Kaylee McKeown. Meg Bailey had another big day winning Bronze in the 200m Butterfly.

Our F-Teamers stole the show in the 50m Butterfly final on the last day of competition with Commonwealth Games medallist Holly Barratt winning Gold in a time of 25.75 and 19-year-old Abigail Schoorl swimming her way to a Bronze medal in her APEX Predator Futurismo race suit.

Congratulations to all of our National Medallists!

Gold Holly Barratt - 50m Butterfly Ashley Weill - 200m Backstroke 19-20 Age Georgia Powell - 200m Breaststroke 17-18 Age

Silver Meg Bailey - 400m IM Tessa Wallace - 50m Breaststroke and 200m IM Georgia Powell - 100m Freestyle 17-18 Age and 50m Breaststroke 17-18 Age Abby Schoorl - 50m Backstroke 19-20 Age Layla Day - 100m Backstroke 17-18 Age Emily White - 800m Freestyle 17-18 Age Ashley Weill - 100m Backstroke 19-20 Age

Bronze Blair Evans - 400m IM Meg Bailey - 200m Butterfly and 200m IM Abigail Schoorl - 50m Butterfly and 100m Backstroke 19-20 Age Gabriella Peiniger - 200m Freestyle 17-18 Age

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funkita · 3 years

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Funkita F-Teamers Off the Blocks For Opens

Our Age Group F-Teamers shined at last week’s Nationals and now it’s time for our Open swimmers to step up to the blocks at the 2021 Australian Swimming Championships that kick off on Wednesday at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

With last year’s Nationals raced virtually due to Covid, swimmers are eager to finally race against the best in the country to see how they are positioned in the lead up to Trials that will be held in June. The meet runs till April 18 and if it’s anything like Age Nationals, we’re sure to see our F-Teamers put up some fast times.

NSW F-Teamer Meg Bailey is gearing up for a big meet. “I’m really looking forward to Nationals this week and getting some racing under my belt. I’m hoping to post some good times with little rest coming into the meet.”

Heats will be run at night with finals taking place in the morning. This is to give the swimmers a chance to get used to the race schedule in Tokyo.

Here’s the schedule of events that our Funkita F-Teamers are competing in:

Wednesday

Open 200m Freestyle Carla Buchanan, Lulu Macleod

17-20 Women 200m Freestyle Gabi Peiniger, Stef McCarthy, Jemima Horwood

Open 100m Breaststroke Tessa Wallace, Sarah Beale, Tianni Gilmour, Mikayla Smith

17-20 Women 100m Breaststroke Georgia Powell

Open 50m Backstroke Holly Barratt, Abigail Schoorl

17-20 Women 50m Backstroke Olivia Lefoe, Layla Day, Gabi Peiniger, Ashley Weill

Open 400m IM Blair Evans, Meg Bailey, Sophie Caldwell, Emily White, Mikayla Smith

Thursday

Open 50m Breaststroke Tessa Wallace, Mikayla Smith

17-20 Women 50m Breaststroke Georgia Powell, Crystal Edwards, Stef McCarthy

Open 200m Butterfly Meg Bailey, Tianni Gilmour, Emily White

Open 100m Freestyle Holly Barratt, Carla Buchanan, Lulu Macleod

17-20 Women 100m Freestyle Gabi Peiniger, Crystal Edwards, Stef McCarthy

Open 100m Backstroke Holly Barratt, Abigail Schoorl

17-20 Women 100m Backstroke Olivia Lefoe, Layla Day, Ashley Weill

Friday

17 – 20 Women 1500m Freestyle Emily White

Open 1500m Freestyle Sophie Caldwell

Open 400m Freestyle Carla Buchanan, Sophie Caldwell, Lulu Macleod, Emily White

17- 20 Women 200m Backstroke Olivia Lefoe, Ashley Weill

Open 100m Butterfly Meg Bailey, Holly Barratt, Tianni Gilmour, Emily White, Abigail Schoorl

17-20 Women 100m Butterfly Gabi Peiniger, Stef McCarthy, Olivia Lefoe, Crystal Edwards

Open 200m IM Blair Evans, Tessa Wallace, Meg Bailey, Gabi Peiniger, Sarah Beale, Sophie Caldwell

Saturday

Open 50m Freestyle Holly Barratt, Jemima Horwood, Abigail Schoorl

17-20 Women 50m Freestyle Crystal Edwards, Gabi Peiniger, Olivia Lefoe, Stef McCarthy, Layla Day

Open 200m Breaststroke Tessa Wallace, Sarah Beale, Mikayla Smith

17-20 Women 200m Breaststroke Georgia Powell Open 50m Butterfly Holly Barratt, Abigail Schoorl, Tianni Gilmour

17-20 Women 50m Butterfly Gabi Peiniger, Olivia Lefoe, Stef McCarthy, Crystal Edwards

Open 800m Freestyle Lulu Macleod

Sunday

Open 800m Freestyle Sophie Caldwell, Emily White

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thesydneyfeminists · 6 years

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Mental Health in Australia

Mental illness has been misdiagnosed, ignored and misunderstood throughout history. Today, the medical industry is still woefully inadequate when it comes to addressing mental health issues that affect all members of society, either directly or indirectly. Mental illness can affect people in a number of ways, sometimes to a disabling degree. Mental illness is characterised by the mental state of an individual who may have an altered mood, behaviour and thoughts. Due to gender imbalances, women’s symptoms are often misdiagnosed and, as is too often the case, not believed. This stems from a long-held notion that women are prone to “hysteria” (now termed as conversion disorder or somatoform disorder) and that they exaggerate or even make up symptoms, or are prone to “feminine fragility”.

The ignorance of some in the medical community has resulted in the large-scale under-treatment of women and minority groups, meaning that many are not receiving the care that they require for their medical condition.

According to the Australian Medical Association 7.3 million Australians between the ages of 16 to 85 will struggle with a mental disorder in their lifetime, most commonly depression, anxiety and substance abuse problems. The amount of the population that are affected by mental health disorders is significant, despite the little attention it is given in the public conversations. Even at its most mild, depression and anxiety have large effects on the daily life of an individual, impacting everything from behaviour to the ability to retain a job or complete study. In Australia those affected by schizophrenia are most likely to die twenty-five years earlier than others without it. Severe depression can inhibit someone from engaging in everyday activities including conversing with others or even getting out of bed; similar symptoms accompany anxiety. Unfortunately, the mental health industry in Australia is considerably underfunded which hinders its ability to conduct research and improve in-patient treatment. While the industry itself needs to improve, only two in every five people actively pursue medical help when experiencing mental health complications. This is likely due to a lack of educating surrounding the issue, as well as stigma.

Mental health problems have been linked to exposure to dangerous chemicals before birth, brain chemistry and the inheritance of conditions that are present in blood relatives. Risk factors include stress, medical conditions, brain damage, trauma, abuse of substances, previous mental illness and loneliness. It is indiscriminate in age and location, affecting the entire population. This is why we need to have a societal conversation about well-being. Once someone has gotten an illness they may isolate themselves, and this increases difficulty in obtaining treatment. In the most recent government budget, there is set to be an investment of $338 million dollars to the mental health sector in particular assisting older Australians, research, and those affected by suicide.

It’s no secret that a weapon of choice from the Patriarchy to oppress women has been to label us “hysterical”. The most obvious way to discredit a community is to characterise them as over reactive and dramatic. Much of the medical sector has to answer to this ongoing mistreatment of women. Women should receive the same medical care as men, or at least be taken seriously when describing symptoms. For example, according to the Guardian reporting on a study conducted by University College of London, women with dementia were handled with less care than men with dementia. And according to Maya Dusenbery’s comprehensive book on the gender gap in health care, women are also taken less seriously in the ER, and have longer wait times than men to receive a diagnosis for a multitude of conditions.

In summary, mental health complications affect such a large proportion of the Australian population, while the current social comprehension of the issue is less than satisfactory. To change the conversation and encourage self-awareness and prevention, we need to check in on one another, tell the internet to do so as well, and keep an eye out for early warning signs in those you know. It’s easy to ignore symptoms until suddenly they engulf you; before anything escalates, it is best to reach out to a friend, or a professional.

By: Esther David

Edited by: Tessa Barratt

If you or someone you know is suffering from mental health problems, please seek help.

Here are some resources:

Beyond Blue - https://www.beyondblue.org.au/

LifeLine - https://www.lifeline.org.au/ Tel: 13 11 14

The Black Dog Institute: https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/getting-help/seeking-help

National LGBTI Health Alliance: https://lgbtihealth.org.au/

Editor’s Note: The Sydney Feminists are presenting a free documentary screening about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on the 20th September in Sydney. This will be followed by a talk on medical sexism and the gender gap in health care. To find out more, please click here.

References

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mental-illness/symptoms-causes/syc-20374968

https://ama.com.au/position-statement/mental-health-2018

http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/genderwomen/en/

https://mhaustralia.org/publication/2018-federal-budget-summary

https://nupsa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mentalhealth-istock-20150914-1080x675.jpg

http://www.talon.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2B-Sonia-Mental-Health-Salt-Lake-Community-College.jpg

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/20/healthcare-gender-bias-women-pain

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, by Maya Dusenbery. Pub. March 6 2018

#hysteria #medical sexism #gender gap in healthcare #mental health #mental healthcare #Australia #stigma around mental health #stigma #anxiety #depression #mental health in Australia

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londontheatre · 7 years

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Central l-r Nicholas Lyndhurst, Alfie Boe, Katherine Jenkins & Brenda Edwards with members of the cast – Photo by Craig Sugden

[See image gallery at http://ift.tt/1FpwFUw] When the charming Carousel Barker, Billy Bigelow, falls in love with Julie Jordan, little do they realise that their relationship will end in tragedy. Fifteen years after getting caught up in an armed robbery, Billy gets the chance to redeem his past and restore pride to his family.

Carousel is presented by Michael Linnit and Michael Grade with English National Opera who have previously produced together the critically acclaimed seasons of Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel and Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close. The GradeLinnit Company are currently producing 42nd Street, to open March 2017 at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

LISTINGS INFORMATION Theatre: English National Opera, London Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4ES Dates: 7 April – 13 May 2017 (press night 11 April 2017 at 7pm) Performances: Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm Katherine Jenkins will not be performing on Tuesday 18 April 2017 – the role of Julie Jordan will be played by Molly Lynch.

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londontheatre · 7 years

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Nicholas Lyndhurst (Star Keeper) joins the previously announced Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow) and Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan) in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between The GradeLinnit Company and English National Opera (ENO).

This semi-staged production of Carousel marks BAFTA Award Winning Actor Nicholas Lyndhurst’s return to the West End stage, where he was last seen in Trevor Nunn’s 2011 production of The Tempest at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. His other West End credits include Allan Davis’ The Straight and Narrow at the Wyndham’s Theatre, Peter Hall’s production of The Dresser at the Duke of York’s Theatre and The Foreigner, by Larry Shue at the Albany Theatre. Lyndhurst is best known for his classic television series; Only Fools and Horses, Goodnight Sweetheart, After You’ve Gone, Rock & Chips, Butterflies and The Piglet Files. Lyndhurst can also be seen in the 2016 film, A United Kingdom.

Lonny Price will direct the season of 41 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum. Beginning on 7 April 2017, with press night on 11 April 2017 at 7pm, the final performance in this strictly limited five-week run takes place on 13 May 2017. ENO award winning 40 piece orchestra and chorus, conducted by David Charles Abell, will accompany the cast in this semi-staged production. Tickets for Carousel are £12 – £110, with over 100 available at £12 for every performance.

Further casting includes Brenda Edwards (Nettie Fowler), Derek Hagen (Jigger Craigin), Alex Young (Carrie Pipperidge), Gavin Spokes (Enoch Snow), Susan Kyd (Mrs Mullin), Martyn Ellis (Mr Bascombe) and Davide Fienauri (Carnival Boy). Final casting will be announced shortly.

Other parts will be played by Bruce Aguilar Rohan, Thomas Audibert, Will Barratt, Jay Bryce, Danielle Cato, Jacob Chapman, Nolan Edwards, Alexander Evans, Lizzi Franklin, Alice Jane, Tessa Kadler, Hannah Kenna Thomas, Jasmine Leung, Leisha Mollyneaux, Rachel Muldoon, Saori Oda, Kane Oliver Parry, Daniel Perry, Alastair Postlethwaite, Joseph Poulton, Verity Quade, Genevieve Taylor, James Titchener, Adam Vaughan, Matthew Whennell-Clark and Anna Woodside.

BOOK TICKETS FOR CAROUSEL

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