What musical theatre can teach us about how we respond to cancer

The female experience of disease is at the heart of an extraordinary and moving show

When Lara Veitch walks on stage in A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer – until then, a giddy, scatterbrained, laugh-out-loud musical – it resonates because she is not an actor. Veitch like most of us, has been touched by cancer.

It’s just that in her case, she has survived cancer six times.

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