When I watched this trailer, I thought about how cool it would be to see two performers showing their vulnerability and putting 'fear' out there for all to see and examine. As a person who has been closely following a path of getting to grips with my own fears and vulnerability (Brenè Brown and Oprah have been hitting up my screens a lot recently y'all) this is a show I am genuinely excited to see. Check it out...
We all have personal fears, be it
public speaking, smear tests, heights, phones, fertility, failure... But what
if you could take time to cure these fears? Would you become a better person?
Would the world be a better place?
Scary
Shit is the latest work by the up-and-coming
UK choreographer Rhiannon Faith.
Describing herself as ‘a hopeless romantic,’ this young British dance and
performance-maker uses movement and whatever else it takes,
theatrically-speaking , to expose and examine what she refers to as ‘those
impulsive, messed-up and fragile facets of the human condition.’ Think
dance-theatre with a big heart and a smutty mouth.
Scary Shit is a humorous, tender, imaginative
treatment of fears, phobias and (female) friendship.
It’s a show about being a woman
and asking for help. Riding the rollercoaster of a moving and courageous
real-life experiment, Rhiannon Faith and Maddy Morgan share
their experiences after attending CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) sessions
with the psychologist Joy Griffiths in order to learn
more about themselves and maybe, just maybe, find a future free of fear.
Previewed
at Colchester Arts Centre, Arts Depot and the Garage in Norwich, Scary Shit was selected and shared at Open
Lab Barbican and Sprint at Camden People’s Theatre. The show follows a real
life transition from scary shit, to recovery and healing, in a language of
dance, theatre, comedy and therapy.
Scary Shit: Imagine a world
without fear…“A
brilliantly physical set of mental ordeals”Alice Saville (Exeunt)
"Rhi is a brilliant
choreographer and a cheeky little minx with a madcap mind."Bryony Kimmings, performer and
performance-maker
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