Theaterformen: Blood Show

In the organizer's words:

Blood Show - Ocean Stefan, Margate

Three figures, 75 liters of fake blood, an endless battle - Blood Show is a call to bring the inside out and defend oneself against violent gazes. This cyclical feat of endurance and precision is a euphoric trans celebration of destruction - including ourselves - in order to create something new. Questions revolve around the concept of rebirth and the ghosts we carry with us. Blood Show is the second performance in Ocean Stefan's "Extinction" trilogy - an experiment to reflect on the limits of the human body. Why do we want to know what people "really" look like? How dangerous is the idea of the "natural"?

Ocean Stefan works between performance, installation, text and film. The artistic practice moves in the in-between and in superimposition - it celebrates the living and the blurred. Ocean Stefan is interested in the gray areas of life and questions the fixed.

Creation, performance Ocean Stefan, Craig Hambling, Tim Bromage Fight choreography Craig Hambling Musical composition, arrangement Tim Bromage Design Naomi Kuyck-Cohen, Joshua Gadsby ProductionLauraBetty Haynes Stage Management Weronika Dwornik Assistance Stage Management Derek Penny Technical Assistance Al Orange Production Assistance Bertie Hodd Blood Production Bloody Stuff Ltd Costume Carmen Hanna Make-up Consultancy House of Bendy Assistance Sound Design AJ Turner, Nik Rawlings Voice AssistanceAndreaLewis Dramaturgy Assistance Gemma Paintin

Original songs "Devil of Wythville" & "Richmond Park" copyright Tim Bromage 2019.

Thanks to Karen Christopher and CJ Mitchell (South House) and Ann Duff.

Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Chapter Arts Centre and Colchester Arts Centre.

Co-produced with Frascati Producties, supported by Ammodo. With the support of South House.

Originally commissioned by Cambridge Junction (Stobbs New Ideas Fund) and Old Diorama Arts Centre. With support from LIFT (UK) & Arts Council England.