Our Carnal Hearts
Thu 11 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+
A Welcome! To you and to me and our spikey, sticky, shameful bits!
With a raucous chorus of original music, award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars and four belting female singers bring you a gleeful, dark show about the hidden workings of envy. Part symphony, part exorcism, Our Carnal Hearts is a thrilling and murky celebration of desire, competition and all the times we screw each other over. Performed with a surround-sound choral score by Louise Mothersole, Our Carnal Hearts comes to the ShowRoom after sell outs across the UK and US and a Total Theatre Award.
“Wickedly funny… soothing and sharp-edged at the same time” ★★★★
The Stage
“Not just honest… very funny, too, and streaked with regret” ★★★★
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“Deeply engaging… beautifully blends together mundane normality and phantasmal spectacle” ★★★★
Broadway Baby
WINNER: Total Theatre Award 2017
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mapdance offers an enticingly varied set of exciting commissions of new works by renowned and upcoming international contemporary choreographers. The gratifying roster of artists this year includes Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor (Israel), Laila Diallo (UK), Laura Aris Alvarez (Belgium/Spain) & Helen Parlor (UK).