- Duration: 60 min.
- Location: Performance Tent
- Age: 16+
- Notice: Nudity, strong language, frank discussions of sex and the body. In English with german subtitles
- Tickets: 15€ / 10€
Tip! The evening can be combined excellently with Tumbleweed or the Make a Move collective beforehand, and then finish off with a film evening.
Drawing from circus, stand-up and live art, “Contra” is a solo-cabaret of contradictions by Laura Murphy. The genre-defying queer performance maker from Bristol creates text-driven and dynamic physical work about things that she thinks need to be talked about. Her work is a cross-disciplinary fusion of theater, live art, aerial choreography, dance and verbal explosions that integrates intimacy and spectacle. Fierce, witty and uncompromising, this highly physical show examines personal, social and historical occupations of the female body and explores, literally, where such bodies are positioned and how we are meant to look at them. Created in part as a contribution to the #metoo movement, “Contra” is an intervention into perceptions of gender, femininity, queerness and consent. Expect scenes of nudity, aerial acrobatics and explicit references to mythical reptiles and female sexuality.
Written and performed by Laura Murphy | Directed by Ursula Martinez| Produced by Nicole A’Court-Stuart for Contraproject| Lighting Design Katie Davies | Relighting Jen Roxburgh | Early stage mentoring Terry O’Connor | Choreographic Support Madeline McGowen| Supported by Arts Council England, Jacksons Lane, circusnext, Carré Magique, The Invisible Circus, La Grainerie, Espace Catastrophe, Room 100.
