This show is a work-in-progress performance as part of our Starting Blocks showcase.
FEAR KNOT - Joy Tan
"I'm going to fight God. Honestly. F*ck Him."
Irreverent, genuine and mildly sacrilegious, FEAR KNOT uses a tangle of knots to untangle the complex effects of colonialism and purity culture on the female body. What does colonialism have to do with sex? And rope bondage with purity? Part-lament, part church ritual, mostly-unplanned, unravel the complexities of making a show on your colonisers' land: and using your /other/ colonisers’ traditional, sexual art form to do so.
SAINTMAKING - Gabriele Uboldi
Accompanied by an interactive live score, SAINTMAKING is a lyrical, post-human fantasia about the body and the internet, inspired by the true story of the Patron Saint of computer programmers.
A man orders an Amazon package from the other side of the world.
A woman reads a Wikipedia article in the middle of the night.
Two strangers meet on Grindr.
And I can’t sleep: tonight is full of fibre optic dreams and nightmares of data centres.
From the Cloud high above, overlooking the small dystopias of the internet age, is the Catholic Church’s latest Saint: Carlo Acutis, the Patron Saint of computer programmers.
Combining an interactive soundtrack with an electrifying libretto, SAINTMAKING is a 21st century opera about the space between sweating and glitching, aching and hacking, in the ever-human search for a good connection.
Award-winning migrant- and queer-led company Undone Theatre is proud to present this brand new show by critically acclaimed writer and director Gabriele Uboldi and award-winning sound designer and composer Theo Foley.
“British theatre would be completely stymied without tiny, under-resourced venues such as CPT, which are a critical part of the theatre ecology.”
Lyn Gardner Stagedoor
