A NEW show labelled 'a perfect antidote to programs like Benefits Street' is to be performed in Bridport.

Award-winning poet and theatre maker Jackie Hagan's new solo show This Is Not a Safe Space features the real voices of the disabled people she knows.

Jackie has conducted 43 interviews with people from all over the country, those who live on the fringes and the spaces in between.

The stories are not sob stories, but instead fully-rounded lives full of the spiky humour and the complicated weirdness of being human.

Through these stories, Jackie waves them together with poetry and anecdotes, celebrating the weird, wonky, the unruly, and the resilient.

Jackie, a working-class queer disabled poet, performer and theatre maker, is a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellow, whose work focuses on celebrating the experiences of people left out of the mainstream.

Dee Fenton, Bridport Arts Centre general manager, said: "Even if you're not political, you listen to normal people talking about hardship and it fires you up."

Those who attend can expect audience interaction, DIY puppetry, poetic comedy, comedic poetry, and an underclass amputee steering the show.

This is Not a Safe Space will take place at Bridport Arts Centre on Friday, September 28 from 8pm.