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  • collectivebreak presents

    Experiments in Rest

    Sat 18 Mar at 7.15pm
    Tickets £8 - £12
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    Four women sit embroidering on an endless piece of fabric, trying to work out how to rest. A study of friendship, anxiety and the uncomfortable parts of learning to stop.
    Content Notice
    Running Time 55 mins
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Content Notice
    Content NoticeThemes of depression and anxiety. The show consistently engages with mental health struggles, but in a gentle tone with an uplifting message. No age guidance from the company.

    Four women sit embroidering on an endless piece of fabric, trying to work out how to rest.

    Combining personal testimony, performance and lots and lots of lost needles, Experiments in Rest attempts to break through the noise of our hyper-stimulated hustle culture.

    Four performers slowly reveal their innermost thoughts and the threads that bind them, whilst trying to maintain focus on a simple, yet pain-staking task.
    An evolving work charting questions of wellbeing, community and the urgency of slowing down, the fabric serves as a living performance document. Everyday, our still, quiet, unproductive work slips, invisible, into its folds.
    A protest against productivity and in defence of care and female solidarity, this performance asks: what does it mean to stop? To take time out? To sit still? And why now, more than ever, do we need to talk about rest?

    Watch Experiments in Rest trailer on YouTube

    Please note that this event takes place in CPT's basement space.

    "'Bittersweet, honest and humane... wonderful"
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