The next meeting: Thursday 16^th April

Aggie

Alison Utting will be coming to Meifod History Group to perform Aggie – her dramatic monologue about the early life of Dame Agnes Hunt – on Thursday 16^th April.

Actor and writer Alison – ‘A Shropshire Lass' – lives in Ellesmere, and her dramatic monologues focus on telling the stories of fascinating and impressive Shropshire women from the past.

In Aggie, Alison portrays Agnes Hunt’s life up to the point of her co-founding the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital with Liverpool surgeon Robert Jones in 1919 (now the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, at Gobowen).

Alison has drawn on Agnes Hunt’s own memoir – This is My Life – in which Agnes writes about her early years. Agnes emerges as an optimistic and determined woman, with a sharp sense of humour. She had a long-term loving relationship, and was passionate about her chosen career of nursing, specialising in innovative orthopaedic care.

Agnes was born in 1867, to a large, well-off Baschurch family. She was painfully disabled throughout her life from osteomyelitis in her hip, after she contracted sepsis as a child, but this did not prevent her from deciding she was going to train as a nurse. In 1901 she consulted Robert Jones about her own orthopaedic problems. He became very interested in the orthopaedic treatments she had developed for her patients, and the two of them later formed a long-term working partnership.

Aggie

A one-woman dramatic monologue, written and performed by Alison Utting

Thursday 16^th April, Meifod Village Hall, at 7.30pm

The event is free to members of Meifod Local History Group, and costs £4 for non-members.