You Look Okay To Me by Junk Theatre
A semi-autobiographical performance based around the experience of invisible illness.
You Look Okay To Me is semi-autobiographical performance of writer and performer Anna van Miert who delivers a theatrical autopsy of one woman’s experience with invisible illness, exploring chronic pain, medical neglect and the disorienting nature of unending ill health. Performing at Theatre Deli from 7 November - 8 November 2025.
The script cleverly blends naturalism with absurdity to communicate the unpredictable and disorientating nature of chronically ill life, urging those whose lives have never been disrupted by illness to consider what that interruption feels like.
The show is a two hander, structured as a collage of fragmented conversations, medical encounters, imagined dialogues, and direct audience address. It also explores how illness affects relationships (including the dynamic between the protagonist and her long-term partner).
The script incorporates interruptions, shifts in tone, and unreliable narration - again mirroring the unpredictability of pain and the difficulty of articulating it. The performance style is playful yet intimate, inviting audiences into the disorienting world of living with an illness that is both everywhere and nowhere at once.
Accessibility for the actors is embedded into the script; rests are written into the show and occur on stage as part of the narrative. Many chronically ill people perform wellness to survive. This show peels back that layer, offering an unfiltered, intimate, and sometimes absurd exploration of what it means to be unwell in a productivity-obsessed world.
Venue details
- Address:
- Theatre Deli
- 107 Leadenhall Steet
- London
- EC3A 4AF