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  • Hester-Stefan Chillingworth

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    Hester-Stefan Chillingworth makes performance work, installations and texts. Playful, low-key and interventionist, Hester-Stefan frequently plays with language, duration, mischief and confusion. They are a Jerwood New Playwright at The Royal Court Theatre, currently under commission, and a Fellow of the Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre and Associate Artist at Cambridge Junction.

    The Extinction Trilogy is a post-human laugh in the face of impending Armageddon. Three works (Monster Show, Blood Show and Nature Show) explore the human body and its limits for representation, voluntary species extinction, erasure, and transness.

    This is the largest performance work to-date by Hester Stefan Chillingworth, and rooted in their lived experience of being non-binary, The Extinction Trilogy is a slow investigation into trying to obliterate humans from performance, in order to make us think more closely about how we look at bodies.

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  • Hester Stefan Chillingworth CPT shows

    Claire Haigh

    Monster Show

    Tue 31 Oct - Fri 3 Nov at 7.15pm
    An uncompromising attempt to re-dub all the audio from the iconic film Frankenstein, using just one voice. A trans purging of out-dated narratives and championing of being many things at once.

    Blog Posts by Hester Stefan Chillingworth

    Hester-Stefan performing on stage, dressed in a bulky Frankenstein Monster costume.
    Posted: 09-10-2023 Tag: artist blogs

    What you looking at? Violent gazes, slippery categories and the power in becoming monstrous.

    Hester-Stefan Chillingworth answers some questions about their cross-genre show Monster Show, coming to CPT 31 Oct - 3 Nov.


    Tobi King Bakare and this theatre deserve a shout-out for such a young, diverse audience. There is so much talk about audiences being full of over 60s and why, why can’t theatres get the crowds in to reflect society in general? Well, I’m happy to say that on a rainy Thursday evening, the theatre was completely full.

    Caiti Grove on Before I Go in CPT's Spring 2023 season London Theatre Reviews