Getting Through It 2025

Run Time:
1 Hr, 40 Min with an interval

Ages: 15+

Opened: October 19, 2025
Closing: October 19, 2025

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The Old Vic

103 The Cut London

Run Type Limited Run

Market West End

Previews October 19, 2025

Getting Through It is a powerful, deeply personal yet universally relatable, double bill of monologues and poetry. In the first part, The Death of Eddie, Michael explores his experience after losing his 18-year-old son to meningitis, recalling the strange and contradictory mix of emotions felt after the unexpected loss. This story, memorably captured in Michael’s children’s book The Sad Book, is told in vivid and poetic detail.

In the second part, Many Kinds of Love, Michael recounts his 48-day period in intensive care, after contracting COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and having to face his own mortality. Both stories are told with Michael’s signature positivity, humour and poetry. Together, the two pieces are a testimony to the spirit of recovery.

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Getting Through It – The Old Vic | Review

From: LondonTheatre1 By: Chris Omaweng Date: 2025-10-19

10 / 10

Other times, however, much of the audience knew what was going on – I don’t recall, for instance, ever being asked to use a pulse oximeter, and therefore had no idea why a result of 58 (as Rosen’s was before he was admitted to hospital) drew audible gasps from the audience at the Old Vic. The lack of sentimentality made for an engaging experience, as were the inclusions of conversations Rosen had with hospital staff in the weeks and months, and even years, after he was discharged. A unique and extraordinary show.

Getting Through It by Michael Rosen at The Old Vic

From: London Unattached By: Joshua Korber Hoffman Date: 2025-10-19