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  • TomYumSim presents

    A Suffocating Choking Feeling

    Thu 2 – Fri 3 December, 7.15pm
    Tickets £12/10 (conc.)
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    Simone explores influencer culture and our obsession with crafting “authentic” versions of ourselves online.
    Content Notice
    Content NoticeThis performance contains references to cancer and terminal illness.
    Health Notice
    Health NoticeThis performance contains strobe lighting and haze.

     

    Living day to day, not knowing if tomorrow will come, Simone Hamilton is overcoming the odds. Rising star, singer and influencer, her followers have witnessed it all. But what makes them believe it’s all true?

    A Suffocating Choking Feeling is a subversive interrogation of truth, inspired by Instagram’s most infamous wellness influencer and cancer “survivor” Belle Gibson (as seen on BBC’s ‘Bad Influencer’). Blending live performance with video streaming and interactive social media experiments, Simone explores influencer culture and our dangerous obsession with crafting “authentic” versions of ourselves online. With dark humour, A Suffocating Choking Feeling plays with the boundaries of truth and ethics, testing audiences’ willingness to believe…

     

     

    Supported by Camden People’s Theatre, Theatre Deli & Pleasance Theatre.

    Creator & Performer: Simone French
    Dramaturgy & Videography: Tom Halls

     

     

    "Absurd, brilliant, and entertaining"
    TheatrePress
    "A notorious collision between social media and the truth"
    The Age
    "Best Contemporary & Experimental Performance"
    Green Room Awards 2021
    "Best Theatre Nominee "
    Melbourne Fringe 2020.

    Thank you for allowing artists to take creative risks, the world needs it now more than ever.

    Programmed artist