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Rae Mainwaring

Oct 6, 2026

7:31
But what actually is the play about, and, and what's the, the structure of the piece?
7:36
So when I...
7:38
The w- the reason that I wrote it was because I hadn't seen any positive representation of people with MS, um, on t- television or on stage.
7:47
And in particular, I didn't see any representation when I was younger of, um, of a younger person going through that.
7:55
And because when I was diagnosed, there was no, um, social media.
7:59
There, there was no way of seeing other people, so it was quite isolating.
8:04
But I particularly wanted to have a representation that, that I felt was true to the experience and that had some hope in it and wasn't just kind of doom and gloom, and isn't this awful.
9:32
But y- can you expand on that? I mean, h- how did the MS diagnosis interrupt your young life?

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