Chronically Hopeful is a bold new interdisciplinary production from Musici Ireland that delves into the raw, complicated, and often invisible realities of living with chronic illness, unseen disability, and neurodivergence. 

Developed and performed by a team of artists who live these experiences every day, the work blends original music, contemporary dance, poetic monologue, and striking visual design to create a deeply human, unflinching, and often darkly funny portrait of what it means to live inside a “wicked” body in today’s society.

Importantly, this is not a story of cure or redemption. It doesn’t seek to inspire through resolution or to simplify the complex. Instead, it embraces the contradictions of everyday life: the cost of getting out of bed, the absurdity of medical bureaucracy, the sting of being left out, and the unexpected moments of beauty and solidarity that make it possible to carry on. Chronically Hopeful doesn’t tidy things up. It sits in the mess, tells the truth, and holds it all, with humour, grace, empathy, and grit.