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There Was A Time

July 10 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

$10.00
A staged reading of the new work before it's Edinburgh Fringe Festival run later this summer!

There Was A Time

Dot is depressed. What happens, though, when the weight of memory is too heavy a burden for one mind? An examination of mental health, love, loss, and the fight to keep going. Mentions of depression, mental health, and suicide.

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