Making it Personal - play script
Kay A., Jeffery M., GORIELY A., HINTON L.
Making it Personal is an innovative public and community engagement with research project at the University of Oxford. Theatre offers a unique platform to “set the scene” on an emotional and personal level, highlighting how individuals process risk and medical information—often in ways that differ significantly from clinical perspectives. Making it Personal utilises theatre to engage the public with genetics research (the iPREGCARE study) and to spark conversations around how a couple might receive and process a de novo (new) genetic diagnosis in their child and approach the question could it happen again? This play script was developed over several months (January – April 2025) by Dr Alison Kay and Dr Minna Jeffery and a co-production panel of genetics practitioners and people with lived experience of genetic diagnosis. A staged reading took place on 17 May 2025 at the MOLT Theatre, St Anne’s College. The recording of the staged reading is available to view on the YouTube channel of the Centre for Personalised Medicine, Oxford.