Big Bang is CPT’s regular scratch night: an explosion of performance from which new universes of theatre may one day emerge. These jam-packed platforms are highlights of the CPT programme: the place to see wild and wonderful new projects take their first steps.
Each bill features three or four artists or companies performing 15-20 minutes of fresh-from-the-rehearsal-room work-in-development. They’re doing so because they want to know what works and what doesn’t, and they’d love you to tell them. So please join us for – and share your thoughts on – these exclusive previews of tomorrow’s most exciting theatre, today…
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Auto Immune Presented by Emma Rose Davies
Emma has an autoimmune condition – auto-immune conditions are the ultimate form of self-sabotage as the body literally attacks itself.
Despite their unpredictability, autoimmune conditions can act as a superpower, seeing off things that no longer serve, sooner rather than later.
Autoimmune (WIP) is a comedic piece exploring self-sabotage.
Emma is an actor, producer and character comedian.
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Bincels Presented by Tommyrot Productions
Three incels. One bin. A whole manosphere of testosterone. This is NOT a safe space.
Shift+Enter into the Bin of Society to meet Alexander, Sickandar and Vince, three bros who can’t get laid because they’ve been cancelled. Frustrated and angry at their status in a perceived unfair world run by ‘femoids’, what will they do to better their circumstances and flip the script?
Through the lens of satire, parody, drag and burlesque, this surreal and clowny performance will scratch the surface of the manosphere and the involuntarily celibate (“Incel”) communities it comprises of. We challenge the audience to explore with us the dark psyche of this online Incel subculture and echo chamber. Maybe you’ll leave questioning how echo chambers - powered by ever narrowing algorithms - run rampant through all sectors of society, sucking us in through our screens and leaving us all susceptible to insulated experience; the breeding grounds of division. Or, maybe you’ll just leave questioning how it came to be that you spent a Wednesday evening watching a drag theatre show set in a bin.
See you there, if you dare.
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