Hummingbird Productions present Hanging by a Thread
Based on B’s personal experiences, this witty and powerful one person play explores patterns of abuse, mental breakdown, and non-male rage as an appropriate response to oppression. Flicking back and forth in time, we see B as feisty child, repressed medical student, rebellious punk singer, broken wife and mother and finally accomplished artist, as they shed the layers that stifled their life-spark. A moment of inspiration, watching Jimi Hendrix on TV in their early teens, symbolises the moments of deep realisation that are scattered through our lives, moments which remind us that breakout and breakthrough are always possible. The play explores the pressures on women to be ‘good’, caring and conforming, the dangerous situations they can find themselves in, the family patterns that keep us stuck and the thread that runs through our lives, woven of unbeatable spirit, courage and power, a thread that never breaks.
Details
Cast & Creatives
Writers: Barbara Mariposa with Linda Morse
Director: Kaït Feeney
Cast: Barbara Mariposa. Heather Ward. Kaït Feeney.
Instagram @barbara.mariposa
Date & Time: Monday 6th & Monday 7th @7.30pm
Running time: 60mins
Content warnings: Suitable for ages 16+. Violence in the home, suicide, mental breakdown, alcoholism. Strong Language & loud music.
Audience Guidelines
Latecomers will not be admitted. Ticket purchases are non refundable.
The Bread & Roses Theatre is an unfunded venue that continues to operate on ticket sales only. Donations help support independent arts and theatremakers, an essential step in preserving the future of fringe theatre.
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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