Videos
About A Girl (2016)
1-1 performance based on our artistic director's personal experience of being a bisexual teen in a non-accepting environment, set in an installation of her childhood bedroom. A confession, love letter and apology to her first girlfriend and first love. This performance explored love, attraction and sexuality and questions whether traditional gender roles box us in. Video credit: Acts of Searching Closely |
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The Sun And The Moon (2016)
An autobiographical piece and candid look at mental illness by our artistic director. This piece concerns the idolisation of parental figures and how abuse in childhood can shape adulthood, based on growing up with a mother who has Bipolar Disorder. The performance used objects from her childhood for authenticity and an immersive experience. Video credit: Acts of Searching Closely |
Memories (2016)
Live 1-1 with an audience. An exploration of feelings around an absent parent and discovering that the people we admire don't always live up to our expectations. Memories questioned how a child's admiration of and longing for an absent parent can affect self-image and feelings of security in adulthood, and played with the idea of idolisation of parents with an adult performer trying to look like her mother and re-enact memories of her childhood with a stranger. |
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Homebound (2014)
An interactive autobiographical and research-led piece, Homebound presented scenarios of how women could unwillingly be drawn into in abusive relationships and the reasons why they might not feel that they can leave one. There were three parts to the performance which were treated as three mini 1-1s and members of the audience were invited on stage to become characters in the piece. |