• At CPT we are committed to ensuring the best possible experience for all artists, audience members and other visitors to our space. We welcome customers and artists with disabilities and are pleased to assist you in your visit. 

    If you have any questions or enquiries, please do get in touch by phone at 020 7419 4841 or email at foh@cptheatre.co.uk.

    • Support Us
  • View Cart icon
    • Basket
  • What's On
  • About CPT
  • Artist Support
  • Accessibility
  • Your Visit
  • Get Involved
  • Our Community
  • News & Blog
  • Hire our spaces
  • Your Account

    •
    Gobscure presents

    heartfelt

    Tue 22 Nov - Wed 23 Nov at 7.15pm
    Tickets £12 (£10)
    ARCHIVE
    heartfelt. a wildly inventive disability-led solo theatre show about hearts & heartlessness - spiralling out of our heart-attacks. with love-heart sweets for all. a must-watch. Slung Low.
    Content Notice
    Running Time 60 mins
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Relaxed Performance
    Relaxed PerformanceBoth performances will be Relaxed
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Content Notice
    Content Noticeit is detailed - talking both about lived experience while also looking at research / facts / figures - but it is also playfully done with kids toys, party things (heart stent procedure is demonstrated with party ring biscuits, party hat, party noise toy, party popper etc), so very playful - the most aggressive is clownlike sending up of psychiatry (sick-chiatry) as whitecoat wielding a large wooden mallet to smash the roundpeg into squarehole on a kids toy after listing more and more ridiculous labels (genuinely used by psychiatry) such as 'non-conformism', 'questioning authority' etc - clearly sending things up. laughing etc rather than anything gorily graphic - we swear occasionally (another sign of 'oppositional defiance disorder') Suitable for 16+
    Health Notice
    Health NoticeLoud noises & sweets (food) given to audience members

    this show is all about hearts & heartlessness. octopi have three hearts and produce their own ink yet humans call octopi violent for throwing seashells underwater. (thats interpretive dance!). humans confine these creatures then medicate them for 'zoochosis'. that medication caused our heart-attacks. our psychiatric jailers called these 'side-effects'. bleak humour is proven to aid survival. a game of competitive empathy will be played; psychiatry will be reduced to firewood; squid will fly & edible-love-poetry shared with all. heartfelt is about reframing narratives & learning to grow.

    Alex Kelly of Third Angel is outside eye director.

    have a heart and watch this wildly inventive disability-led solo theatre show.

    Click here to watch the trailer.

    heartfelt is backed by MGC futures bursary; Graeae beyond bursary; Level Centre Residency; Slung Low Leeds seed funding.

    Reviews:

    https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/gobscure-reframes-personal-stories-to-create-a-bigger-picture-in-their-latest-show/

    "heartfelt weaves the personal and the political, the witty and the raging into the most fascinating map of how on earth we got here. Always a must watch."
    Alan Lane, Slung Low
    "As a performer gobscure is intelligent & quick witted, he holds the stage whilst sharing the space quite genuinely with his audience."
    Graeae
    "[On previous work] dizzying and hypnotic, cutting edge social commentary, part creative resistance and part performance. ... spellbinding’"
    Museum of Homelessness
    "[On previous work] very excited by your work and its spirit. ... love the intensity of it."
    Live Theatre
    "[On previous work] a voice rarely heard, if ever, in theatre. it is complex and at times dazzling. "
    Cardboard Citizens

    "An unrivalled chance to see edgy, experimental and brand-new theatre"

    Time Out

    Camden People's Theatre
    58-60 Hampstead Road
    London, NW1 2PY
    View Camden People's Theatre on Goggle MapsView on Google Maps
    View Camden People's Theatre on Goggle MapsSign up to our newsletter
    BOX OFFICE
    020 7419 4841
    EMAIL
    foh@cptheatre.co.uk
    Useful Links
    Privacy Policy Terms & conditions Booking Information Get In Touch Transport for London
    Connect with us
    facebook twitter Instagram LinkedIn Stagedoor app
    2024 Camden People's Theatre |
    Company number: 03256616 |
    Charity number: 1058723
    site
    unleaded
    JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
    First Name
    Surname
    Email
    Upon registration you will have the opportunity to create an account and edit your communication preferences. You can unsubscribe/edit at any time. Click to view our full privacy policy.