Breast cancer is a club Jane Japes never thought she would join, only ladies in the “pink club” were welcomed surely. Dead Inside takes the audience on an autobiographical journey explained through stand-up and spoken word describing her traumatic life-changing experience.
Japes had to choose between whether she wanted to live or die when the battle against breast cancer began and she decided to choose life. Explained predominantly through humour the details can leave your toes curled at times.
The comparison in the interest shown to Japes for her cancer far outweighed what she received when she was grieving the loss of her boyfriend. Everybody she spoke to appears to become an expert on the subject, many with no life experience in the illness at all!
An honest performance in which, quite frankly, the treatment scares me far more than the diagnosis. Japes doesn’t hold back, and watching her performance gives anyone facing breast cancer a fantastic role model for surviving, especially in some of the darkest days they are going to live through.
It’s lived experiences like these which make for some of the best comedy and self-therapy all rolled into one performance.
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Three Stars
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