Daisy Green Found Her Voice Review

Her story opened up like a corset

 Daisy is a poet, performer, spokenword, facilitator and founder of Llangollen spoken word. Her work explores voice, identity and transformation – how we carry our stories, survive our struggles and learn to speak truth.

And the show did what it said on the tin. Through recounting her story, her truth, good and painful from memoir and journals, Daisy threaded poem and spoken word in this honest and personal piece, full of relatable memories and experiences. Daisy began by admitting she usually did a much shorter slot, a characteristic honest and open admission but the audience were captured until the very end of her session. It wasn’t slick, it wasn’t polished within a inch of its performance. It was raw and real. Daisy took us back to the very beginning where she struggled for breath, we then followed her through her childhood, her memories of family and her struggles with undiagnosed ADHD. Daisy shared yearning for stimulation, being labelled and the sanctuary of grandparents. Her world building brought them to life, capturing tiny everyday details perfectly so that we too were at their Sunday lunch, playing cards with the family. Daisy then shared evocative images with the passing of her grandad and talked about the changing shape of grief and love. We beared witness to Daisy’s need to know the rules, her unkind inner voice and disappearing into her own world. But even the universal question of ‘who am I?’ felt authentic and personal and the answers were honest and raw and familiar. Daisy shared her deep dive into her voice with a room full of strangers, sat in comfy chairs in a Wolverhampton cafe on a hot July afternoon. Her story opened up like a corset; one memory, one truth, one revelation, one realisation at a time until we could all breath a little easier for this genuinely honest thinker, writer, fighter.