By Ian Youngs Entertainment & arts pressreporter Image source, Joel Chester Fildes Image caption, Clara Darcy (left) had a type of cancer that’s discovered in around 25 individuals in the UK every year Actress Clara Darcy is appearing in a play about her experience of being identified with an exceptionally uncommon type of brain cancer. She describes why she is grateful to her tumour. Earlier in her profession, Darcy took part in a typical workout where stars and drama trainees have to envision what it’s like to face death, to assistance them represent a character in that scenario. “As much as you can push yourself to envision it, it is neverever the exactsame as really having truly been there on the precipice,” she states now. “As much as your creativity can let you go there, you won’t infact ever value it till you’re at that precipice yourself.” The next character Darcy is representing is herself, in a play she has co-written about dealing with a chordoma – which left her with a tumour “the size of a fist” in her head. The reveal’s title, We Should Definitely Have More Dancing, amounts up the brand-new pointofview she states she has got about what’s crucial in life. ‘Live for the here and now’ That title refers to “the liberty of being able to dance, the liberty of sensation absolutely alive”, she states. Dancing is a repeating style in the play, whether it’s sluggish dancing with enthusiasts or inebriated dancing with goodfriends. “You can’t aid however have that extremely close dance with death and, if you’re fortunate sufficient to makeitthrough it, come back and have a new-found regard for life,” Darcy states in a practicesession space at the Oldham Coliseum theatre. “You truly value simply being able to wake up every day. I can keepinmind lying in healthcenter and being so scared of going to sleep since I wasn’t sure if I would wake up the next day. “You notification truly little, lovely things about the world and I simply feel so grateful that I’m still here. Not everybody gets that possibility, you understand. “So I guess the play is all about attempting to pass that message on, attempting to teach a bit of that knowledge of, shot not to sweat the little things and simply live for the here and now – and today.” It is 3 years giventhat Darcy, then 35, suffered the serious neck discomforts that her GP, a physio and chiropracticspecialist couldn’t get to the bottom of. Eventually, a “brilliant, terrific” junior A&E physician sentout her for a CT scan. Image source, Clara Darcy Image caption, Darcy had more than 14 hours of surgicaltreatment to eliminate the tumour – through her nose It discovered she had a chordoma – a slow-growing type of cancer that’s discovered in around simply 25 individuals in the UK every year. A week lateron, she had 14-and-a-half-hour surgicaltreatment to eliminate it through her nose. Darcy, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, has a long list of theatre credits plus visitor functions in Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, The Royal and BBC Two’s Eric and Ernie. When she was detected, she had simply endedup carryingout in a theatre production of Brassed Off. In the origin
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