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Milly Thomas Wins Stage Edinburgh Award for Dust

by Staff Writer
August 21, 2017
Reading Time: 4 mins read
Milly Thomas Wins Stage Edinburgh

Milly Thomas Wins Stage Edinburgh

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Milly Thomas (Clique, BBC3; Clickbait and A First World Problem, Theatre503) has won a Stage Edinburgh Award for her performance in Dust – a self-penned piece, directed by Sara Joyce.

Thomas comments, I’m absolutely overwhelmed by this. I’m so hugely proud of the show and the team behind it. Alice’s story in Dust is extremely important to me and it means the world to be sharing it with audiences every day. It’s an honour to be recognised by the awards at all but especially for a performance in the context of mental health. It feels like another step in the direction of smashing stigma which means the world to me.

       

She goes on to say, If it weren’t for director Sara Joyce there’s no way I’d be giving this performance. When I write and perform my own material it has the potential to become all self-indulgent and she has grown this and had an unmistakable hand in shaping Dust into what it is.

Dust is a refreshing, caustic and comedic treatment of one woman’s depression, suicide and everything that happens afterwards. In an unflinching examination of a suicide, this stripped-back monologue for one woman explodes the myth that death is a quiet affair, as it inspects the unavoidable practicalities, alongside the heart-wrenching decisions and pain – and the laughter.

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Fergus Morgan, in his review for The Stage, wrote, [Thomas] is great – versatile and vibrant, and investing Alice with a likeable frankness and a dark sense of humour.

Dust is at Underbelly Cowgate (Big Belly) until 27th August at 4:40pm.

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