Rise of the Resistance Festival launch event.

On 3 September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his laboratory after a holiday. Before leaving, he had inoculated staphylococci on culture plates and left them on his bench. On return, one was contaminated with a fungus and the colonies of staphylococci surrounding it had been destroyed – by the antibiotic effect of penicillin.

On 3 September 2021, Rise of the Resistance celebrated the birth of antibiotics with a theatrical conversation between Healthcare Scientists, Precision AMR researchers, artists and patients on the looming health crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which Fleming predicted in his 1945 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

What can we learn from microbes about innovation and cooperation?
What can we learn from each other by sharing expertise and experience?
What is AMR and what can we do about it?

Performed by:
Nidhi Kapil, Tara Kearney, Dr Steven Kemp, Nicola Sanderson, Helen Sheals, Rebecca Simon, Sam Watkin, Jonny Wright, Özge Yetiş

With extracts or presentations from:
Mrs X by Nicola Baldwin
Nobel Prize ceremony 1945 by Dr Alexander Fleming
Killing bacteria with your jewellery? By Nidhi Kapil
Do you really need those antibiotics? By Dr Steven Kemp
Lucky Jen by Nicola Sanderson
Me And Her by Rebecca Simon
My Motivations by Sam Watkin
P. aeruginosa in hospital showers by Özge Yetiş
And the words of:
Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green, Anthony de Souza, Halan Mohamed, Sue Lee, Dr Jennifer Rohn

Devised and directed by Nicola Baldwin
Filmed at Bloomsbury Theatre Studio by Theatrical Solutions
Edited by Louis Milner

Produced by NOSOCOMIAL for Rise Of The Resistance, a festival of innovative responses to AMR. Presented by Nosocomial in association with UCL Precision AMR to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance as a threat to human and animal health through research, drama, discussions and collaborations.
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With thanks to UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Society for Applied Microbiology, Healthcare Infection Society, Royal College of Pathologists, UCL Culture, Bloomsbury Theatre, Theatrical Solutions.

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