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Standard Issue Podcast

Denise Gough on addiction, People, Places & Things

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Fans of the Star Wars universe will no doubt recognise Ireland’s Denise Gough as steely Andor villain Dedra Meero. But it was back in 2015 that she was catapulted to stardom with her role as Emma in Duncan Macmillan’s existential addiction drama, People, Places & Things. Almost ten years on, People, Places & Things is back and so is Denise with a proper barnstormer of a performance in a play that’s funny, clever, vivid, devastating and one of the most emotionally intelligent takes on addiction, recovery and our notions of self our Mick’s ever seen. Denise is herself a former addict, so in this episode, she and Mick are talking about addiction, the dark humour of addicts, notions of self, that time psychiatrists had a fight in the foyer, and why it’s important to see women in roles like this. People, Places & Things runs until August 10 at Trafalgar Theatre. https://trafalgartheatre.com/shows/people-places-and-things/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You all right? Such a small question and sometimes such a big question too, eh?

0:10.0

Now, regular listeners will know I am no stranger to depression and while over time and with the help of some decent counseling and brilliant friends and family I've established a toolkit to help when the constantly dripping tap of life gets a bit too much.

0:23.7

That does not mean I am a stress-free human rainbow skipping through meadows.

0:28.1

I mean who is? We all carry around different stresses big and, and sometimes we can deal, and sometimes it's

0:35.6

much harder to coke. Like, they're it. Right now, I have a teenage puppy to deal with, and

0:41.0

although I love her very, very very much she can be a lot. There said it. And as quick a fix as it seems to say, I'm fine, I'm fine and push it all down into the big inside box and put that lid on.

0:55.2

For me that hasn't been a great long-term solution in that if I don't get it off my

1:00.3

chest it will at some point come bubbling up and it's never been one to

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pick its moments in a good way. I find talking means I can avoid it exploding out of me

1:09.6

like a messy emotional volcano all over my Nana's carpet.

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I discovered that saying something out loud or writing it down

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can make it seem much more manageable than allowing it to swirl around and grow ever bigger in my head.

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