Stories from the Closet
a play about
living with chronic illness
Written by Yvette Lu, MD
"A young woman's
fantastical odyssey into the world of hospitals, doctors, and
illness."
1st Prize,
Integrative Arts Projects
University of British Columbia
Family Practice Resident Research Day
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With
content based on patient interviews, research findings, and Yvette Lu’s own
experiences as a doctor, Stories from a Closet: a play about
living with chronic illness, is a story about a young woman
and her journey through the trials and tribulations of learning to
cope with illness. |
synopsis
physician
information
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Upcoming
readings:
TBA
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Previous public readings:
Medicina:
Arts and Humanities in Health Care Conference
Firehall
Arts Centre BC BUDS Spring Arts Festival
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Production Centre
University of British Columbia Resident Research Day
College of Family Physicians of Canada Family Medicine Forum
UBC Arts & Humanities in Medicine Coffee House |
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"works of art
enable us to know something about feeling that cannot be revealed in
literal scientific statements"
- Elliot Eisner, "Knowledge and
Art"
in Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research |
Audience feedback
from the UBC Family Practice Resident Research Day:
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"Now I
get it. Now I understand why this kind of work is important."
"Amazingly
well done. Very moving and pertinent to all of us as family
physicians."
"Emotionally
powerful and extremely educational." |
Facebook
site
press:
article in
UBC
Family Practice Bear Bones Newsletter
(page 3 "Seeing
Anew, discovering art in research")
