‘Naked Dietician’ on stage
A Quaker and former NHS worker is performing a one-woman show exploring links between healthcare and social justice
A Quaker and former NHS worker performed a one-woman ‘spoken word’ show last month exploring the links between political and social factors and poor diet. Raise the Roof by dietician Lucy Aphramor, also known as ‘The Naked Dietician’, was shown at the Glasgow Women’s Library on 12 June.
The show draws on her experience working in the NHS. Lucy Aphramor told the Friend: ‘I want to complicate the story to highlight the way that privilege and oppression work through our bodies. It’s never talked about, for example, that there is a huge link between heart disease and loneliness. We need to bridge healthcare and social justice. That is why it is so Quaker – because what is “body respect” if not “that of God in everyone”?’
A tour of Raise the Roof started this week in Manchester on 6 July. It will also be shown at the Edinburgh Meeting House as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as a new show Enough.