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Goodstock at Edinburgh festival review " touching look at the genetic lottery of cancer by Lyn Gardner

Pleasance, EdinburghThe unlucky draw of life is given an unflinching but positive examination in Olivia Hirst's affecting showTime is ticking for 26-year-old Olivia Hirst. She has the BRCA 1 gene which means that she has 40% chance of getting ovarian cancer and an 80% chance of getting breast cancer. Behind her on a blackboard there is a family tree in which it is possible to trace the gene as it has been passed thro…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57pm on August 27, 2015

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