Laura Murphy (UK)
A Spectacle of Herself
PART OF THE GENDERHOUSE FESTIVAL
Join Laura on a mission to serve herself up [in]appropriately for your consumption, in a bold, cinematic, acrobatic odyssey through the frontiers of mental health, queerness, rage & the 21st Century space race. Directed by Ursula Martinez, with Laura’s critical and cheeky signature mix of autobiography, lip-sync, video and aerial rope, A Spectacle of Herself navigates the personal and political to seek out new worlds and ways to be seen.
Venue: Aabne Scene (Godsbanen)
The performance is sold with unnumbered seats.
Following on and zooming out from the occupation and commodification of the body explored in their debut show Contra, Laura Murphy presents A Spectacle of Herself – a vulnerable and deeply personal intervention into what it means to take up space, to spill out and be seen…
Exploring mental health, queerness and rage alongside self-driving cars and the 21st Century Space Race, A Spectacle of Herself will adventure through shape shifting identities and landscapes as we join Laura on a mission to serve herself up [in]appropriately – for your consumption.
With layers of autobiography, lip sync, creative captioning, video and aerial performance in Laura’s critical and cheeky signature style, A Spectacle of Herself navigates between the personal and the political to create a moving, entertaining and politically committed ride.
PLEASE NOTE!
Only suitable for audiences 16+ years and up. Contains nudity, strong language and frank discussions of sex and the body.
REVIEWS
★★★★★
“A testament to the transformative power of theatre.”
– Morning Star
★★★★
“A powerful and empowering piece of work.”
– Scotsman
★★★★
“Wildly funny and deeply touching.”
– The Skinny
★★★★
– Everything Theatre
“Mesmerising!”
– Theatre Travels
ABOUT LAURA MURPHY (UK)
Laura Murphy is a genre-defying queer performance maker from Bristol, who makes textdriven and dynamic physical performance about things that she thinks needs to be talked about. Challenging, intimate and spectacular, her work is a cross-disciplinary fusion of theatre, live art, aerial choreography, dance and verbal explosions. Laura’s methodology involves asking her circus technique to serve the work rather than lead it, helping her to push the boundaries of what is expected from aerial work and what aerial disciplines are able to communicate within a theatrical context.
Performer & Writer:
Laura Murphy
Director:
Ursula Martinez
Producer:
Nicole A’Court-Stuart
Lighting Designer:
Jen Roxburgh
Captioning & Projection Designer:
Ben Glover
Filmmaker:
Holly Black
Production Manager:
Dean Sudron
Devising Captioning & Projection Designer:
Mark Morreau
Access Consultant:
Max Sutherland
Lip Sync Supervisor:
Dickie Beau
Trailer:
Patch De Salis