After their award-winning debut production, Crocodile, Joyous Gard have teamed up with some fantastic collaborators to bring 3 brand new plays to VAULT Festival 2018 as a celebration of new voices in theatre.
I Have A Mouth And I Will Scream is a play-performance-art-protest-thing. Six women are playing a game. They jostle for space. They argue. They try to address every single feminist issue in the space of 60 minutes. One of them dresses up as Ripley from Alien. Everything gets trashed.
This new piece from Abi Zakarian (Fabric, Fringe First Winner 2016) and directed by Rafaella Marcus (JMK Award Finalist), is an angry riot dream staged by women who are stuck on the business of being women but are quite worried about getting it wrong, actually; a funny, messy, fierce go at turning up and yelling really loud with a great soundtrack.
‘I am tired of making sense. Of being significant in a designated space. An attempt will be made … an attempt, here, tonight … please, please …’
Originating as a short play commissioned by Damsel Productions and Pint-Sized, and now presented in its entirety for the first time, I Have A Mouth And I Will Scream is a fascinating piece of sharp, foul-mouthed new writing that plays form as much as it plays with gender roles.
I Have A Mouth And I Will Scream runs in the Cavern, 14-18 February at 21.00, with a matinée on 17 February at 16.30.
