Lay Down Your Heart

Written and Directed by Marie Clements

Produced by Shirley Vercruysse

Lay Down Your Heart focuses on the art and ability of visual and theatre artist Niall McNeil, an artist with Down Syndrome, to forge family from a wide range of creative collaborators. His high profile “ex-wives”; his many “children by another mother” and his blood family are all part of an inventive process that binds the imagination and the intimacy of heart relationships to reveal what it means to be human and cry your heart out