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One hour 40 minutes, including an intervalSuitable for ages
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Dates
19 Oct 2025About the show
Don’t miss the London premiere of Michael Rosen’s double bill on love, loss and mortality.
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.
Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen
Michael is known internationally for his work as a bestselling children’s author and poet, heralded for children’s classics such as We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and The Sad Book. Michael held the esteemed position of Children’s Laureate between 2007–09 and was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2023. He is also a prolific author and poet for adults, exemplified by his family memoir, The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II.