Optimistic: Elizabeth Holmes icon

Optimistic: Elizabeth Holmes

Sarah Deller


£12 (£10)

ZOO Southside

18:55
(1hr)
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Elizabeth Holmes claims her biotechnology will revolutionise medicine - and people believe her. A single drop of blood, she claims, can be used for up to 800 blood tests. As she defrauds investors of hundreds of millions of dollars and uses her disastrous technology to test real patients, does she think she’s doing anything wrong? This devised verbatim play, based on interviews, newly released trial exhibits, text messages, and Holmes’s personal notes, asks questions about the gap between appearance and reality as it delves into the mind of the fraudster once considered guaranteed to change the world.

Age Guidance: 16+

Content Warnings

  • Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes
  • Scenes of a sexual nature
  • Scenes of sexual violence
  • Depictions and discussion of eating disorders

Further details

Graphic representation of Eating Disorder

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