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WORLD PREMIERE
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BY NIGHT GARDEN THEATRE
W O E hits the back of the throat like a shot of pure absinthe. Wound tighter than a spring, this work mashes classic gothic horror with the fast and dirty world of cyberpunk and modern dystopia, if Guillermo Del Toro directed Ghost in the Shell.
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PERFORMED BY Isha Menon and Meg Taranto
A young queer woman struggling under the weight of modern patriarchy and capitalism is suddenly gasping for air in the whirlpool of Ophelia’s final moments, ripped from her own psyche to bear witness to Ophelia’s steady march to the willow tree. Writhing between worlds and drowning in the confluence of their descents into madness, the two women discover that despite the centuries that cleave them apart, neither can breathe for the shame that chokes their lungs, poured down their throats by a society that would rather see them dead. ABOUT THE ARTISTS - NIGHT GARDEN THEATRE Together, Isha and Meg are Night Garden, a creative duo that make work that is fierce, feminist, queer and on the edge of nightmare. Through the surreal, the magical and the downright uncanny, we bring stories that live on the fringes centrestage and shine a spotlight on the things that haunt our waking hours with pathos and biting humour.
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