Yes, but that's not all!

2016, 30 minutes

‘Yes, But That’s Not All!’ tells the story of a unique friendship between two women – one living with the effects of stroke, the other inspired by her courage and spirit.

It is a story of trust and love. Both women share a determination to shake things up and push at barriers. Together they have started to test some limiting beliefs that beyond a certain stage and a certain age, little was likely to change following stroke. Nan Millard had a massive left brain stroke in 1994 leaving her severely paralysed, virtually speechless and wheelchair bound. Let down by the system immediately following her stroke she was offered inadequate rehabilitation therapy and it was the belief that with her loss of speech she had also lost her capacity to read. Nan’s life before her stroke was defined by socialism and a passion for politics and equal opportunities. It was whilst working with InterAct Stroke Support, a charity using actors’ skills to read one-on-one to survivors of stroke in hospitals and stroke clubs, that actor Sara Kestelman first met Nan and their special friendship began. Sara started experimenting with some communicating strategies and using a clinically designed computer program, React2, she discovered Nan’s indisputable ability to read. Their work together opened up Nan’s world and the story follows their journey through Nan’s memory, past and present, in London and in Nan’s beloved Paris where her early life as a translator and interpreter with the World Peace Congress began.