“If part of the purpose of art is to take you inside the experience of another and show you something of how they live their life, there can be few more essential shows in this respect on the Fringe than Claire Cunningham’s Give Me a Reason to Live. Essential, that is, and timely, for Cunningham’s dance performance is designed to invite understanding where otherwise we might feel none, or where our emotions might be rubbed down to a callus and numbed by an onslaught of media apathy.

“I’ll be reassessed for my disability living allowance at some point this year,” says Cunningham, who uses crutches in her life and her work as a result of the osteoporosis which impairs her physically. “As a disabled person you’re required to try and prove how capable you are in life, to prove how independent you are and what you can do, but you’re also being tested on what you can’t do to get the financial support you need.”

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