Queen of Arts
Emma Hart set up Queen of Arts Productions in April 2007.
The concept behind the Queen of Arts, (pun intended), is to perform new comedic writing in the format of a one-woman show, easily transferable from venue to venue and with quirky production values
Emma wrote, produced and performed a one woman show in 2007.
'The C Word' previewed at the Etcetera Theatre as part of the Camden Fringe Festival in August 07 and received great reviews.
Press Release
Emma was inspired to write 'The C Word' after being diagnosed with the disease herself 5 years ago.
After an initial shocked reaction to the news she worked out that to get through those dark days she would need positive thinking, lots of comfort shopping and a bloody good sense of humour. She decided to record her thoughts in a diary during this period - Bridget Jones has nothing on her. Now in remission, Emma decided to use the material and her experience to create this play - it was either that or do a symbolic climb up Everest and her feet would never fit into her favourite heels with all those blisters.
Press Reviews
"Emma Hart's one-woman show is her own inimitable take on the C-Word, Cancer. From the sugar-coated "Cancer pills" her audience is forced to eat as they enter, to the "C-Word" brand stamped on our wrists, Hart's account, based on her own brush with the disease,
is in-yer-face, honest, yet amazingly upbeat.
This is no sacharine, whimsy tale of "how I got through it", but a veritable triumph of guts over statistics.
Hart pulls no punches when it comes to the harsh truths of diagnosis and treatment, nor is she afraid to show her weaker moments, but the entire piece is shot through with enough wicked humour - from sly one-liners to fantasy sequences involving Big Bugger tasks for cancer-sufferers - to scare even cancer into submission.
"As a performer, Hart is vibrant, enthused and extremely likeable. This piece could - and should - go far."
Review by Louise Hill, British Theatre Guide
The play moves into the world of likeable Zoe. It's easy to shudder with her... and laugh secretly alongside her. Emma Hart cleverly juxtaposes the harsh reality of Zoe's choices and treatment with popular icons of today.
The moments where Zoe removes the brave comic face she wears to consider the shitty path fate has sent are performed sensitively and delicately by Emma Hart. The C Word is, unashamedly, a chick lit novel on stage. It's easy to empathise with the clumsy, quirky heroine attempting to battle cancer. Review by Jemma Gross, Fringe Report
"Emma Hart’s The C Word humorously and poignantly focuses on one woman’s experience of having cancer, based on Emma’s own brush with the disease." Review by My Cultural Life, London
Emma Hart
'' ***** As a performer, Hart is vibrant, enthused and extremely likeable." – British Theatre Guide
The C Word
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