Restitched Theatre presents - Dirty Laundry
How do you love something that doesn’t love you back? How do you begin to reckon with your nation’s devastating history? And, most importantly, how did anyone think it was a good idea FOR A NUN TO GIVE SEX ED?!
A powerful solo show exposing Ireland’s history of institutionalising women through religion, colonialism, and shame. “Dirty Laundry” stitches together multimedia, verbatim text, and performance to explore the Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, and religious control. Fierce, funny, and unflinching - this is history scrubbed raw.
Drawing from testimony, reflections, research (and many stupid conversations with men), this piece confronts the history and the ramifications of colonisation in Ireland, and asks how you can hold both pride and shame in yourself at the same time.
Described by early audiences as “immersive, educational, and impactful, with standout imagery and careful crafting.” This show voices a history that is all too often swept under the rug.
Details
Cast & Creatives
Niki Agrios: Writer
Anna Seyerle: Director
Movement Director - Dan Hardwell
Date: Thursday 25th Sept
Time: 6pm
Running Time: 60mins
Content warnings: Age 14+ Infant Mortality, Mentions of Sexual Assault, Institutional Abuse, Mentions of Abortion, Medical Neglect, Colonialism & Strong Language.
Light Audience Interaction, Flashing Lights
Latecomers may not be admitted. Ticket purchases are non refundable.
Concession prices apply to students; under 18s; pensioners; those on disability and unemployment benefits; Equity, BECTU & SDUK members.
Venue
Venue: The Bread and Roses Theatre
Home of The Lambeth Fringe, The Bread & Roses, is an award-winning and innovative fringe pub theatre.
A 50-seat fringe venue above The Bread & Roses Pub, the theatre programs a wide-spread variety of productions for local as well as far-reaching audiences. Equality, diversity and artistic quality are at the forefront of the theatre's programming, which features in-house productions as well as many visiting companies. The theatre regularly hosts touring shows and has worked with award-winning ensembles with decades of experience but also frequently welcomes and supports emerging theatre-makers taking their first steps. The programme includes new writing, contemporary revivals, reinvented classics and occasionally also devised work, improvisational theatre, comedy events, family shows and physical theatre.
Theatre: Capacity 50, full rig, lighting desk and sound system. Projector and mics hireable.
Perfect for: Theatre, new-writing, WIP, solo shows and boundary pushing work.
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