On a stage that might be a painting or might be a page torn from a book, three women unravel a fractured text on culture and savagery, nostalgia and loneliness, that is by turns joyously insolent and actually kind of heartless.
Part narcoleptic beauty pageant, part psychosexual fever dream, DOMESTICA is a woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotated dismantling of high art and classical posturing that asks where exactly weʼve come from and where exactly we might be going in this ever-louder, ever-accelerating new century we seem already to be leaving.
DOMESTICA follows the company’s critically acclaimed AMUSEMENTS (2012) and KARAOKE (2013) as the final part of LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, a loosely connected trilogy of performances about pleasure and boredom in this the adolescent decade of the 21st Century.
“A head-swim of a show...this is serious experimental theatre - a piece that deserves to go down as a staple”
“A bold and beautiful new theatre for a brave new world”
``A supernova of colour, smoke, light & sound``
``A nightmarish riff on the western canon that replaces centuries of blandly smiling sirens with something rather darker``
``A kind of multimedia essay...part visual bombardment, part manifesto``
“Iʼve falling into its trap, and i love it more the longer i spend down there”
Created by Sleepwalk Collective
ORIGINAL IDEA AND CREATION: Sleepwalk Collective
PERFORMANCE: iara Solano Arana, Malla Sofia Long and Gloria March Chulvi
TEXT: Sammy Metcalfe, with the performers
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sammy Metcalfe
STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN: Ana Inés Jabares Pita
LIGHTS: Alex Fernandes and David Alcorta
VIDEOS: Ainara Pardal
PROJECTIONS: Sammy Metcalfe
PRODUCER IN THE UK: Sarah-Jane Watkinson / Outer Circle Arts
PHOTOS: Alex Brenner
- Co-produced by Festival BAD Bilbao, Festival TNT Terrassa, and Festival Internacional de Teatro de Vitoria-Gasteiz.
- Supported by: Gobierno Vasco, Bilbao Eszena, Azala Espacio de Creación, Battersea Arts Centre, and Arts Council England.
- Support on tour: Instituto Etxepare.
