Actress Shelly Bancroft will take the stage tomorrow for a show that could end up literally saving her life.
Bancroft will join other performers at the National Cultural Centre in a held over production of Maria Benschop’s ‘Nothing to Laugh About 4’ in a bid to raise funds for heart surgery. Half of the proceeds of the show are to be gifted to her for the surgery.
Bancroft was diagnosed with rheumatic valvular heart disease with dominant features of mitral valve incompetency many years ago and while medication was enough to treat her condition, these past few months it has worsened. “I was on medication
