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
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
Access Support
Kao Hove
Viv Gordon
Additional design
Oumar Diallo
Produced By
Rafia Hussain
Claire Browne
