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Surviving Samsara

October 22, 2021

A close-up of a person's face on a screen. The person has short, dark hair and deep brown eyes that are staring directly at the camera. The screen has a black frame and it sits on a tripod. There's a window with white frame on a wood panel behind the screen that looks out to some trees.
A still image from the production of The Day My Cat Saved My Life. Photo credit: Kagan Goh

A multimedia, multidisciplinary theatre production created by artist Kagan Goh, Surviving Samsara is a deeply personal story that traces Kagan’s struggles with manic depression. Drawing on a collection of poems and short stories written over a period of 20 years, Surviving Samsara offers intimate insights into an ‘insider’s’ experience of madness as a survivor and traces Kagan’s journey towards recovery, acceptance and unconditional self-love. The project seeks to expose the damaging effects of the stigma on mental illness, and explore manic depression not only as a disorder, but as a spiritual emergence – a vehicle for personal growth, healing and transcendence.

Initially conceived as a multimedia, multidisciplinary theatre production, the work has evolved to include several performance readings, a short film The Day My Cat Saved My Life (2020) and, most recently, a memoir published by Caitlin Press. This project is co-produced by Cinevolution Media Arts Society and Theatre Terrific, with generous support from many quarters. 

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