Poppy Radcliffe returns with the followup to her 5* show SECTIONED, seamlessly interweaving crushingly honest poetry with prose to paint a picture of life under the mental health services.

Sectioned at her peak, Poppy spiralled as she tried to come to terms with what happened and found herself in an ever enclosing web of interventions. Where physical health care focuses on recovery and independence, a diagnosis of serious mental health is considered a condition for life, one that must be managed, monitored and medicated, but when the illness is born from trauma, surely true recovery is possible.

Described as the “21st Century Sylvia Plath” (Neurodiverse Reviews 2023), Poppy takes you on her journey through than seven involuntary stays in mental words, from elation to despair, run-ins with the law and visitations from angels, her autistic, ADHD, bi-polar mind has taken her everywhere and the poetry that she wrote at peak distress brings the story to life.

In this “heart-warming, confident performance.” (Everything theatre 2023), Poppy questions whether the services always help. Enjoy the power of words as they take you into the world of one “young and very talented poet” (fringe review 2023).