I Hide in Bathrooms
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Absurd and darkly funny, I Hide in Bathrooms is a revealing meditation on mortality and romance from performance artist Astrid Pill.
Bringing long-term collaborators Astrid Pill, Ingrid Voorendt and Zoë Barry (members of acclaimed 2000s feminist theatre collective Ladykillers) back together for the first time in over a decade, I Hide in Bathrooms is a surprising meditation on love, grief, death, and yearning.
Performance artist, Astrid Pill draws from semi-autobiography in this absurd and darkly funny show, about the experience of losing an intimate partner, or falling for one who has, or perhaps being the one who is dying.
In this solo performance, these points of view shift and morph, as a woman traverses her romantic delusions, sense of mortality, and her capacity for acceptance and hope.
Crafted by artists gifted in making experimental performance experiences that tap into subversive melancholy and the fusing of fiction and real-life stories, this is a show full of mood and imagination. At times instructional, at times a dream-like world, it is hilarious and deeply moving - tackling the taboo and the universal of relationships with lovers, dead and alive.
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“Pill conjures up the complexity and confusion of grief and loss – of what it’s like to lose your other half, of the messiness that is left behind when someone who should be there no longer is, and of what we owe to dead and to one another. And, somehow, it’s both funny and cutting.”
“Pill’s exquisite stage presence and ethereal, nuanced, multidisciplinary performance is something to behold. The complexity and gravity, the pathos and whimsy remain with you long after the final bow.”
“Pill is an engaging artist who moves like a dream, sings and tells stories with a surreal intensity. Elegant and abrasive. Pill’s hypnotic performance transported me to a ferocious limbo land. You will be entranced by artmaking of the highest level.”
“...a production full of invention...this many-faceted play holds our attention, not in a morbid way, but generous in spirit.”
“Pill is phenomenal as the solo on-stage performer. Skilfully directed by Ingrid Voorendt. Devised by a brilliant line-up of creatives including composer/sound designer Zoë Barry and video designer Jason Sweeney. A superb collaboration.”
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