“I thought ‘what would happen if I went on stage and just took my wig off?’ The reaction was quite big, people gasped and covered their mouths.”<\/p>\n
Actor and writer Emily Glaze has alopecia areata, an autoimmune condition that causes sudden, patchy hair loss. <\/p>\n
The 30-year-old from Telford started losing patches of hair at 16, before all of her hair fell out at 21, when she was in her final year of university.<\/p>\n
“It’s not really what you imagine, going out into the world,” she said.<\/p>\n
Glaze is now taking a one-woman show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, based on her experiences of living with alopecia.<\/p>\n
The show Basic Bald B*tch, revolving around the fictional character of Amy, originally started as a 10-minute monologue which Glaze wrote for a scratch night – an opportunity for theatremakers to test short excerpts of works-in-progress – in 2021.<\/p>\n
“For a really long time I felt so much shame about the subject of having alopecia,” Glaze said.<\/p>\n
“I got to a point in my life where I was really done with having to hide all the time and I found a lot of empowerment in performance.”<\/p>\n
She decided to go on stage at the scratch night and take her wig off, eliciting a powerful reaction from the audience.<\/p>\n
“It was quite a shock for that performance. People would come up to me afterwards and have lovely positive things to say,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I thought ‘what would happen if I went on stage and just took my wig off?’ The reaction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}