Interlude: Liverpool ONE—Liverpool Too: A Therapeutic Tale of Two Cities

Abstract

This chapter examples how mental health and wellbeing is ‘temporally’ spread. As a form of verbatim theatre, the playwriting within this interlude experiments with the presentation of ‘health data’ as perceived through various paradigmatic lenses, such as positivism, constructivism and posthumanism—each presented as separate narrators—to highlight the performativity of such concepts. As well as the WiC co-participants/co-researchers, posthuman scholars are also introduced as characters within the play. This method interferes with the linearity of ‘traditional’ academic production techniques and forces the researcher and reader to engage with the data in a different way. It challenges many current assumptions about meaning-making during analysis regarding interpretations and representational data. This (post-qualitative) drama of health is the author’s attempt at a rhizoanalysis, partly based on the thoughts, associations and ideas that the Liverpool experiences/events of the WiC inquiry produced.