Eleanor Hill has written a one-woman play, and she is that one-woman who will be performing it. She says it is ‘an interactive, digital, semi-autobiographical, one-woman, tragicomedy’.
Elanore also says this: ‘
Why bother coming?
Someone in the industry said “This show is way too ‘mental-healthy’, people won’t want to come and you won’t sell tickets”.
So, I’m mainly hoping people come just so I can prove them wrong. Apart from me wanting to prove a point, there’s also a world of wonders in this show to draw you in!
Live projection, actual Instagram-lives, tripods, ring lights, direct messaging from the character to the audience and visa-versa, movement, banging tunes, sexy neons, and (this is the bit you can say is ‘Groundbreaking’ in your reviews)…I’m asking the audience to USE THEIR PHONES IN THIS SHOW.
That’s right, you can take pictures and videos, heck, you can live stream the whole damn thing if you like and even get ‘extra content’ on your instagram during the show! ( So much could go wrong tech-wise, you should come just for that!)
And…
I’m a loud, brazen and darkly comic theatre-maker, who has decided to take some terrible things that happened to her and turn them into a play. Sounds pretty intense, right? But it is funny, she promises.
Sad-Vents is an immersive show about mental health, heartbreak and trauma through the lens of social media.
Music, movement, and mixed media collide in this solo piece that bravely (or madly) asks the questions we don’t want to hear the answers to.
Somewhere between Euphoria, Instagram Live and all those Netflix trauma porn documentaries you just love watching; audiences will leave feeling exposed and alive, reconsidering what and why they share online, who it’s really for and how they consume the lives of others.
Together we’ll scroll through reels to find what’s real and when it’s done, we’ll go ready to share our deepest, darkest secrets with all and sundry….Or not…?
White Bear Theatre, Kennington Road, SE11 from 20th – 25th June. Time: 7pm. Admission: from £16.