chameleon; mirage

Written by & starring Lucy Idil Jordan

This high-stakes excavation deconstructs the psychological toll of a life spent "masking" across continents and cultures. Having navigated a career in secondary education and unionism, Lucy trades the high-pressure school bell for the meditation gong to explore the "mirage" of seeking groundedness externally. The narrative weaves multicultural alienation and neurodivergent "otherness" into a lyrical quest for identity. By exploring these intersections, the show highlights the specific displacement felt by those caught between worlds.

PART OF DRAYTON ARMS THEATRE EDINBURGH PREVIEWS

Trigger warnings & Age guidance: 13+ , the show explores high-level psychological concepts like the "fawn response," neurodivergent masking, existential crisis/meaning of life and the disintegration of identity and ego. These could be distressing, confusing, or in general just require a level of emotional maturity and life experience that younger children don't develop until later

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