Betyl is a small theatre company making work at the intersection of the classical and the contemporary. At its core is a collaboration between queer theatre artists Bailey Edwards (performer/writer) and Mia Hull (director/dramaturg). Betyl’s first collaborations emerged out of a rigorous physical practice, training with the SITI Company, Kameron Steele and the Suzuki Company of Toga in Japan.
The result has been a series of highly physical pieces that unsettle an audience’s relationship with space and performance. Sometimes this means staging work in unexpected environments: former frat houses, a crowded sitting room couch, outdoor showers. Other times, it means eating a grapefruit—skin, seeds and all—blurring the line between theatre and performance art, allowing the audience to experience the doing of the thing itself, not its representation.
