Lithium Mania • Wellcome Collection

2021 | Composer & Sound Designer

A collaboration between writer Laura Grace Simpkins and composer Alice Boyd. Commissioned by the Wellcome Collection.

Selected for In The Dark’s New Voices 2022 and presented on XMTR

A disastrous night out left Laura Grace Simpkins in no doubt: she was drinking too much and needed help, but her doctor was more concerned about her mental health than her alcohol consumption. Several appointments and many months later, Laura was diagnosed bipolar and prescribed lithium. Here she recounts the beginning of a troubled new relationship with a mysterious drug.

Written and narrated by Laura Grace Simpkins

Music and Sound by Alice Boyd

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