Lab Works 2 by MA theatre Lab
The Lab Works Festival returns with eight theatre works-in-development across two programmes from our MA Theatre Lab students. Come and experience a range of original performance, experimenting with ideas, practices and forms, in a Laboratory theatre environment.
Possibly messy and very theatrical.
Tickets are £10 and £5 concessions.
Lab Works 2
What a Muslim Woman Looks Like
Created and performed by Hani Taha
Dog House
Created and performed by Emma Pyne
Ratking
Created and performed by the Lab Rats Anita Brokmeier, Nathan Gregory, Felipe Jara, Devaki Rajendran, Eliza Jean Scott, Claudia Shnier, Chloe Shyan and Kate Taylor Hunter
What a Muslim Woman Looks Like
Created and performed by Hani Taha
Abhinaya and Dance Choreography: Arham S. Hashmi
Wardrobe (bridal): Mohsin Naveed Ranjha, MNR studio
Piano score: Mads K. Olsen
Rap beats: Isaac O'Conner-Odekoya
Rap edits: Humzah Saeed
One Muslim woman's ruminations about herself, her nuptials and the big bad world she's heading to.
Content warnings: contains distressing sounds and mentions of terrorism and genocide.
Dog House
Created and performed by Emma Pyne
Mask, video and additional movement direction by: Katy Howe
This domestic animal wants her freedom and has had enough of the gender divide and the gaslighting of her kind. But does she really stand a chance against the patriarchy?
Content warning: partial nudity, sexual references, adult themes
Ratking
Created and performed by the Lab Rats Anita Brokmeier, Nathan Gregory, Felipe Jara, Devaki Rajendran, Eliza Jean Scott, Claudia Shnier, Chloe Shyan and Kate Taylor Hunter
What do rats, office workers and emperors have in common? They rise. They thrive. They fall. Chaos is ripping open the wall. We consume power and power consumes us.
Thomas Cole painted five paintings telling the story of civilization, from the savage state to the desolation after destruction. Collapse is archetypical to human nature. How do our different dynamics of domination pave our way to descension?
Drawing inspiration from the Roman Empire, animal kingdoms and contemporary office powerhouses, Ratking is a multilateral power trip asking what it means to gain and lose control.
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