What Makes A Body Terrifying?

What Makes A Body Terrifying?

WHAT MAKES A BODY TERRIFYING? is a queer exploration of two strikingly similar folk tales: the Slavic Rusalke and the Celtic Selkies. These two folk tales centre around mythical sea-people - said to shed their skins and become dangerous, beautiful human-forms, who seduce sailors and lure them to their deaths. This piece explores how they use narrative and rhetorical devices to create fear, and how these parallel with the ways fear is generated against queer bodies.

Taking a curious approach, this piece asks questions about how we are persuaded to be scared of the sea, as a way of understanding how we are persuaded to be scared of others.

 

The Not-God Complex embrace this topic with a physical, multidisciplinary approach. The result is a show that plays with pace, structure and form. The company deftly uncover the lines been storytelling and real-life impact, between the sea and the land, between human and non-human, between straight and queer and between fear and safety. Drawing on elements of dance, theatre and poetry, this piece has something for any audience member willing to be open to questions.

This piece was developed with support from Arts Council England. 

 

Content warnings: references to homophobia, abstract references to drowning



Theatre Company Reviews:

"Blending movement, puppetry, folk songs, audio clips, pseudo-verbatim passages, folk dancing, sound design and more besides, a richly evocative but highly abstract collage is built up over the space of an hour. And in the manner of much devised theatre, it proves to be equal parts beautiful and baffling." - There Ought to be Clowns

★★★★★

"This piece of performance art is visually and aurally beautiful from start to finish." - Everything Theatre

Production Details


Run Time:

  • One Act: 60 mins


Age Restrictions:

  • 15


Tickets:


Performances:

  • Fri 2nd Jun 2023 - 7:30 pm

  • Sat 3rd Jun 2023 - 7:30 pm

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