Getting Through It
Run Time:
1 Hr, 40 Min with an interval
1 Hr, 40 Min with an interval
Ages: 15+
Closing: October 19, 2025Getting Through It - 2025 West End History , Info & More
The Old Vic
103 The Cut London
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
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
10 / 10
Rosen, with his gift for reading, holds the audience in his large hands. He is frailer now than he once was, but he has a grandfatherly twinkle in his eye. As I believe they used to say before the internet: “I would listen to him read the phone book.” Combined with his writing – vivid yet unpretentious, poetic almost without one noticing – Rosen seems to conjure the warm flicker of a campfire from the darkness of his loss.
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Review Roundup: GETTING THROUGH IT on the West End
by Gillian Blum - October 19, 2025
by Gillian Blum - October 19, 2025
The new one-person show GETTING THROUGH IT played on the West End on Sunday, October 19 at The Old Vic, both being created by and starring Michael Rosen.
Michael Rosen Will Bring New One-Person Show GETTING THROUGH IT to the Old Vic
by Stephi Wild - August 19, 2025
by Stephi Wild - August 19, 2025
The Old Vic has announced that former Children's Laureate, poet and writer, Michael Rosen, will present his new one-person show Getting Through It, exploring themes of love, loss and mortality.
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