The Trauma Show
Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, In Good Company (mid-career commission), Cambridge Junction (with support New Ideas Fund) and Contact Theatre, in association with Fierce Festival.
Co-commissioned by Derby Theatre, Attenborough Arts Centre and Nonsuch Studios.
Supported by Unlimited, Arts Depot, Jerwood 1:1 fund, Another Route, Belgrade Theatre, University of Worcester
Demi is obsessed with trauma, childhood trauma, naming it, analysing it,healing from it, and getting-on-stage-to-perform-it. That last one might be a trauma response but you can decide that. Having entered her 30’s Demi expected to be more whole, more healed, to not still feel like a child. Because trauma lives in the body and the body keeps the score, and we all know what that means. Disclaimer: Demi doesn't know what that means.
The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, ‘therapise’ culture and how TikTok can heal us all.
Credits
Written & Performed by
Performer
Demi Nandhra
Oumar Diallo
Directed by
Francesca Millican-Slater
Set & Costume design
Lighting Design
Lizzie Moran
Katherina Radeva
Sound design
Iain Armstrong
Production Manager
Lizzie Moran
Stage Manager
Amy Duckworth
Creative Mentor
Mental Health Consultant
Viv Gordon
Access Support
Kao Hove
Claire Browne
Additional design
Rafia Hussain & Demi Nandhra
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