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Motherland

2012, 75 mins

 

Inching its way through airbrushed beauty, porn-star fashion, boob jobs and Botox, through victim-blaming, slut-shaming, misled motherhood and choking childlessness, Motherland is a funny, moving show about what it means to be a woman.

Spurred on by the Spice Girls, Germaine Greer and Caitlin Moran, Vincent goes into battle with the big boys, arguing against a narrow, over-sexualized definition of femininity to ask ‘what is it that we really, really want?’

VDT’s brilliant multi-talented ensemble of 11 men, women and children, aged from 10-78, dismantle the dream that we can ‘have it all’ as they call into question the gender they were born into and the price they are paying for it.

Characteristically cutting across movement, live music, the spoken word and song, Motherland is a call to arms – one that sticks two fingers up at the shallow hypocrisies and inequalities of our time and instead asks ‘what do we hope for now?’

Motherland is commissioned by Brighton Dome and Festival, South East Dance, Corn Exchange Newbury, The Point Eastleigh and Peak Performances @ Montclair State University, USA.

 

Tour Dates

5th October 2012 Corn Exchange, Newbury
11th October 2012 The Point, Eastleigh
17th October 2012 The Junction, Cambridge
23rd October 2012 Corn Exchange, Brighton
Dates to be confirmed The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome
8th, 9th & 10th November 2012 The Place, London
13th November 2012 Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
15th November 2012 Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts
19th November 2012 Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff
20th & 21st November 2012 Warwick Arts Centre

 

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Who's Who

Motherland will be created in collaboration with:

Collaborators
Aurora Lubos
Janusz Orlik
Patrycja Kujawska
Robert Clark
Scott Smith
Greig Cooke
Andrea Catania
Alex Catona
Leah Yeger
Emily Maynard

Dramaturgy Ruth Ben Tovim
Lighting Design James Harrison

Direction and Design Charlotte Vincent

 

 

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