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  • Gash Theatre presents

    Shelley

    Fri 10 - Sat 11 May at 9pm
    Tickets £8 - £12 (+ booking fee)
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    A multimedia theatre experience about Shelley Duvall, gore, girls, and glitter. Duvall’s “inconvenient” emotionality sets us veering between burlesque routines, buckets o’ blood, & the terror/joy of becoming the blob.

    Get 25% off when you book more than one show across our Spring Season (April - June 2024).

    GORE. GIRLS. GLITTER.
    A multimedia burlesque fantasia about Shelley Duvall.

    Horny for horror? Freaky for feminism?
    Fancy a lap dance from Jack Nicholson?

    When directing The Shining, Stanley Kubrick reportedly made Shelley Duvall film one scene 127 times. It took 3 weeks. By the end of it, her hands were scraped raw & her voice was hoarse. In the scene as captured on film, she’s a puddle of snot, a total wreck – as Stephen King said at the time, a “screaming dishrag."
    Should we be watching her? Is this acting or just a woman being genuinely tortured?

    GASH is reframing the horror movie genre to uncover whether it is truly as misogynistic as we fear or instead a celebration of the craft of female hysteria.

    Come join our ooey gooey fleshy blobby spectacular of bodily fluids!

    Content Notice
    Running Time 60 mins
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Content Notice
    Content NoticeSexual content, moderate nudity, simulated gore. 16+
    Health Notice
    Health NoticeSmoke/fog/haze, Flashing Lights, Loud Noises, Food/Drinks consumed by performers, Visual effects (Glitter curtains etc)
    "Queens of Kitsch, @GashTheatre create a pop culture-infused sci-fi epic with cabaret flair. With trademark irreverence, the duo dissect our society’s alienating body & sex standards via a multimodal, luridly sensual, delectably vulgar adventure."
    Fringe Biscuit [on previous work]
    "I can’t recommend this delightfully weird and unique production enough"
    Broadway Baby [on previous work]
    "To attempt to explain or describe Maddie Flint and Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn’s multi-media ode to sci-fi and sexuality feels almost wrong. No piece of writing could convey the irreverent, referential, meme-laced madness that unfolds along this space voyage. "
    The Wee Review [on previous work]
    "An amusing and provocative show."
    The Scotsman [on previous work]
    "Weird, wonderful, totally not linear but gloriously perceptive and thoughtful."
    London Pub Theatres [on previous work]
    "A kitschy, thought-provoking meditation on masculinity."
    Fringe Biscuit [on previous work]
    "The ambition and fearlessness displayed makes this compelling, entertaining, and a sign that Gash Theatre has the talent to deliver even more in the near future."
    Everything Theatre [on previous work]

    "CPT is the first place we turn to when we have a new idea, knowing that experimentation and new ideas are always supported."

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