IT WAS one of the most horrible times in her life, says Springburn actor and playwright Éimi Quinn, but weirdly, she adds, one of the funniest.
It is the story of 19-year-old Emma, who finds out her cancer is not terminal on what should be the happiest day of her life. However, having spent all her money and racked up debt living her ‘last’ year to the full, she is now facing bankruptcy and hatches a daring plan…“But the teenage cancer ward, I mean, there are so many stories. I think I’m going to have to make a TV series to fit them all in.
The Funeral Club is directed by Maureen Carr, accomplished stage and screen actor, famous for River City, Still Game and co-founding Glasgow women’s comedy writing collective Witsherface. “She holds us all up – no, shut up, you do,” she remonstrates as an abashed Maureen tries to interrupt. “You’re so encouraging.”
“I started a business degree and then in my first year, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer,” she explains. “I got through it – my friends would go to lectures then come and tell me in hospital everything they had learned that day."She laughs. “I mean, no offence to anyone doing business, but it really made me re-evaluate my life and think - what do I actually love? What do I want to do? And that was acting.
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