Willkommen Damen and Gentlemen!
Roll up, stroll in and join us on a spectacular stagger through the post-apocalypse of 1945. The bearded ladies run on treadmills, to a delicious live musical score, conjuring up past and present digital landscapes. They masquerade as men for your entertainment and their own protection. Draped in gallows humour, the suited duo launch you on an unimaginable, inconceivable plight of flight and migration.
1945. Lucia Rippel is expelled from her place of birth. She walks 220 miles across the fractured landscape of Europe, with her two children and all of her belongings dragged behind her in a cart.
2015. Ildiko´ Rippel and Rosie Garton retrace her footsteps. Crossing borders, climbing fences, bleeding, crying, blistering and carrying their flat-pack children.
2017. The duo perform No Woma’s Land, a politically charged nod to 1920’s Kaberett, entwining the duo’s experience of their walk with Lucia’s story.
Expect live music, tap dancing, beards, treadmills and digital alchemy in this moving and darkly witty performance.
‘A funny, dark, moving, snarling cabaret that breaks your heart’- David Parkin, Reviewer
‘Intelligent, witty and emotionally demanding, offering a high octane march across history in a bid to connect the past with the present, which is all our journey’ - Roger Clegg, Academic Author
‘one of my all time favourite shows at Attenborough Arts Centre - funny, moving and sadly never more topical’- Michaela Butter, Director Attenborough Arts Centre
Booking Link: https://wlv.ticketsolve.com/shows/873572504 Or 01902321321
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