Finding a way to kill the pain
BASED on personal experience, Stefanie Preissner’s one woman show, Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend, opens at Cork’s Half Moon Theatre today and runs until Saturday. While it deals with serious issues such as mental health problems and codeine addiction, the play is so humorous in places, some reviewers have referred to it as stand-up comedy.
Preissner describes her writing style as “quite tongue-in-cheek and self aware. It has that comedy that comes from retrospection, looking at how I was. I think that’s the way to engage audiences, to have humour, because I’m dealing with such a stark subject”.
