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‘Moving, powerful, framed beautifully.
Breathe is brilliant – just go!’
- Lisa Spirling, Artistic Director,
Stratford East Theatre
‘By turns uplifting, frightening and inspiring. Katy’s story is truly astonishing.’
- Declan Costello, Consultant ENT Surgeon
About
Breathe is the extraordinary autobiographical one-woman show about soprano Katy Lees’ miraculous recovery from terminal cancer. One of the UK’s longest-living survivors of mesothelioma, Katy tells her moving story with humour and unflinching honesty in this one-hour play, and sings the arias that rescued her — by Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, and Bernstein.
Created and performed by Katy Lees
A love letter to hope, opera and the compassion of human nature
Directed & co-written by Amy Phillips

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