This November I’m bringing Ways To Submit back to the Netherlands with a special one-off performance in Utrecht as part of De Utrechtse Nacht. The event is organised in partnership with SPRING performing arts festival, and takes place at a nightclub in Utrecht, KABUL à GoGo.

Ways To Submit
KABUL à GoGo, Gietijzerstraat 3, 3534 AV Utrecht
Saturday 23rd November, 20:45
Tickets are free, no booking necessary
Full info: culturelezondagen.nl

As the venue is a club space, not a theatre, it is recommended to wrap up warm!

This week I’m in Naples, where I’ve been invited to participate in Altofest – a residency and festival situated in domestic spaces.

For Altofest, artists are hosted in the homes of resident citizens, and we live together for two weeks. Artists stay and work in the same space: informal, domestic, daily. We are invited to question and rewrite our work by relying on the elements present in the spaces that host us. I’m here working on like the party has been cancelled, a show I last performed in 2022.

The public programme takes places 19th – 23rd June. All performances are free but reservation is essential because most spaces have limited capacities. Programme (and the full Altofest philosophy) is here on their website: www.teatringestazione.com/altofest.

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Dates for my performance are:

like the party has been cancelled
Friday 21st June, 21:30
Saturday 22nd June, 19:30
Sunday 23rd June, 17:30

This is a show about wanting to bring order to mess, and wanting to disrupt order. About wanting to build new things with old shit.

It is a reflection on control, on losing yourself, and on desire. It investigates the conflicting urges to be in control – to have mastery, to be effective – and to lose control – with its evocation of release and freedom. It explores the idea that everything can be reimagined, and then the problem that everything comes to us full with meaning, history, feeling. It asks: what does it mean to know that you want, but not what you want?

‘Like the party has been cancelled’ is a live-collage performance of cut up bodies, grafted animals, half landscapes, recomposed histories, dissected worlds. An intuitive, meditative, image trip, that attempts to burst its own banks and flood the room. With you in it.

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* This mobility project is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union. This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

While I was in Paris for Paris Globe Festival I did an interview with Et Merdre ! We talked about Ways To Submit and Commitment Phobe and the development of my practice and the why and what and how of making art.

It was a very enjoyable conversation – you can listen on your podcast platform of choice here: etmerdre.fr or watch on youtube here.

This month I will be performing in Paris for the first time. I’m thrilled to have been invited to present both Ways To Submit and Commitment Phobe at Paris Globe, an international festival that is part of the cultural programme that surrounds the Olympics in Paris this year.

Dates are:

Ways To Submit
Théâtre de la Concorde
Saturday 25th May, 19:30 & Sunday 26th May, 15:30
Booking: parisglobe.fr

Commitment Phobe
Théâtre de la Bastille
Wednesday 29th & Thursday 30th May, 19:00
Booking: parisglobe.fr

Tickets are now available online, and you can see the full programme here: parisglobe.fr

In March 2024 we will be performing Commitment Phobe again at Frascati in Amsterdam, and Festival Cement in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Hope to see you there, more tour dates coming soon..

Frascati, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Friday 15th & Saturday 16th March 2024, 21:00
Tickets €10-€15
Booking: frascatitheater.nl

Verkadefabriek, Festival Cement, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Friday 22nd March 2024, 17:00
Saturday 23rd March 2024, 21:00
Booking: festivalcement.nl

This September I’m presenting both Commitment Phobe and Ways To Submit again, one in Germany and the other in Spain:

Commitment Phobe
Theaterszene Europa Festival, Cologne, Germany
Saturday 23rd September, 20:00
Tickets: €15/€7
Booking: studiobuehnekoeln.de/theaterszene-europa-2023

Ways To Submit
Festival TNT, Terrassa, Spain
Saturday 30th September
Tickets: €11
Booking: www.tnt.cat/en (on sale from 6th September)

Ahead of the premiere of Commitment Phobe, and it’s tour to The Yard in London, I wrote some things about the show, the process, and why I made it. You can read them here:

A blog for Run Riot.
An interview with Theatre Full Stop.

Enjoy. x

I’m excited to announce that my new show Commitment Phobe – which began as an idea back in 2020! – will premiere in April 2023, and then also be presented in London in May.

Commitment Phobe is an exploration of doubt in a society that values certainty. It is a response to a perceived social and cultural demand for the clear, the sure, and the consistent – ways that we are taught it is worthwhile and understandable for a person to be. It is about what it means to not know, to not choose, and to keep moving. 

Dates:
Frascati, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wednesday 19th-Saturday 22nd April 2023, 21:00 (Premiere: Thursday 20th)
Tickets: €10-€15
Booking: www.frascatitheater.nl

NOW 23 @ The Yard, London, England
Tuesday 2nd-Saturday 6th May 2023, 21:00
Tickets: €15/€17
Booking: www.theyardtheatre.co.uk

The work is produced by Frascati Producties, in coproduction with wpZimmer, C-Takt, Festival Cement, and The Yard Theatre. Read more about the show here.

We’re starting 2023 (well, February) with some performances of Ways To Submit at CAMPO in Gent, Belgium. I’m very happy this work continues to have a life, and that I can share it with audiences again.

CAMPO Nieuwpoort, Gent, Belgium
Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd February 2023, 20:30
Tickets: €14/€12
Booking: www.campo.nu

An upcoming tour date for like the party has been cancelled:

Monty, Antwerpen, Belgium
Friday 23rd September, 20:30
Tickets: €15/€12/€10
Booking: monty.be

And we have a lovely new trailer below! Made by Tessel Schmidt.

like the party has been cancelled is a collage performance of cut up bodies, grafted animals, half landscapes, recomposed histories. A reflection on control, on losing yourself, and on desire. A show about wanting to build new things with old shit. ✂️

This summer I will be performing Ways To Submit again, for the first time in over two years. In 2020 touring of the work was abruptly cut short due to Covid-19 and – due to the nature of it – it’s been impossible to present it up until now (there is no ‘socially distanced’ version of the show!). So I’m super happy to finally be able to get onto the mat again with this piece.

I’ll be performing at Theaterfestival Boulevard, as part of the Afzender Cement programme, full details below – tickets are on sale from the 13th June.

Boulevard Festival, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Friday 5th & Saturday 6th August 2022, 20:30
Tickets: €15/€13
Booking: festivalboulevard.nl

Read more about Ways To Submit here.

After several Covid-postponements, my new show like the party has been cancelled will finally premiere in March 2022.

It has been a long time coming, and I have a lot of complex thoughts and feelings about how these postponements and extensions of an artistic process affect the work, and affect the artists making the work. It feels exciting to put this project into the world, finally, and perhaps also a bit more fragile than usual. But I’m excited to share it with you, and for this work to find its completion. The show premieres at Festival Cement, and then will be in Frascati in April:

Festival Cement, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
21st-24th March 2022, various times
More info & tickets here

Frascati, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8th & 9th April 2022, 21:00
More info & tickets here

Read more about the show here.

like the party has been cancelled is produced by Festival Cement, in co-production with Frascati Producties.