The production was awarded the Mental Health Foundation Fringe Award at Edinburgh in 2025.
It has been announced that following a sell-out run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning dark comedy Beth Wants the D will play at the Pleasance Theatre in London from the 23rd and 24th October.
Performed and written by renowned American podcast host and actor Beth May, the one woman show uses May’s own experiences bipolar disorder to unpack the
extreme highs and lows of living with mental illness.
This autobiographical one-woman show puts you in the splash zone of death and delusion as Beth journeys through her struggle with bipolar disorder, but like, in a funny way. Through the bizarre highs and perilous lows, Beth knits comedy and drama together to find the scariest thing of all — a future full of hope.
Following a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run in 2025, Beth Wants the D was awarded the Mental
Health Foundation Fringe Award which recognises new creative work that challenges mental
health stigma and opens up more difficult conversations. After its London performances, the
show will return to Edinburgh for a performance at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival on Thursday 29th October.
Writer and performer Beth May comments, ” Last year I had the time of my life bringing Beth Wants the D to Edinburgh Fringe, and I’m beyond excited to share a dark, silly, and hopefully very important story with more people. My hope is that audiences will see that my humanity is not diminished or negated by my mental illness and find a better understanding of what serious mental illness can look like. I think this show makes the case that even when things are so bleak and even when you feel like you’re completely nuts, you can come back from this. Call me crazy…but I think that’s a message worth spreading.”
To book tickets visit: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/beth-wants-d