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(OFFSITE) After Metamorphosis

Lewis Sherlock and Ali Maloney

Sat 29 Jan 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

£10 – £12
Age Group: 16+ (under 18s accompanied)
Duration: 1h
THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE OFF-SITE AT THE STUDIO @ THE FESTIVAL THEATRE

Access: BSL interpreted performance. Hearing loop available. Ramped access to venue.
Contact venue with additional access requirements.

Is Gregor Samsa a bug wishing he was a man or a man wishing he was a bug?

AFTER METAMORPHOSIS is a high-octane, visceral reworking of Kafka’s classic tale that weaponizes the surrealism of the original text into a wild rumpus; a satire of conformity.
In a world of political and ecological turmoil, where unfathomably large corporations control everything and our food supply chain is in jeopardy, are we just workers for the hive? Are we all Gregor Samsa?

Through intense physicality, visual theatre, micro-cinema, puppetry, vocals, and rumbling, seismic soundscapes, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS conjures a world of insects and humans coexisting. Are we really that different? As intense and brooding as it is playful and mischievous, AFTER METAMORPHOSIS peers through the eyes of insects to both lampoon and celebrate humanity, scuttling — mandibles a whir — around themes of imposter syndrome, identity, capitalism, the hive mind, and our relationship with the environment and ecosystem.

Devised and performed by physical theatre artist Lewis Sherlock (Oceanallover, LARDS) and performance writer Ali Maloney (Caledonian Gothic, Ratcatcher, Hydronomicon). The combination of their respective practices — experiments with clowning, bouffon, butoh, and choral; dark, abstract rap burlesques and the physicality of voice — lends AFTER METAMORPHOSIS its potent palette.

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