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A collaboration between Peggy Shaw and Clod Ensemble

MUST the inside story

Monday 13 February, 7.30pm
at Anglia Ruskin Drama Studio, Covent Garden

Journey through the hills and valleys of one woman's body
Adventure across the melting ice caps and the thirsty deserts

Accompanied by a live band, legendary New York performer Peggy Shaw excavates the memories and images that shelter in her joints and unearths ancient stories embedded in layers of bone. Followed by a post-show discussion.

Inspired by images from Gulliver's Travels, Hildegarde von Bingen, The Elephant Man and everyday experiences of the medical profession, Must takes a hard stare at the medical gaze and the assumptions people make about each others bodies.

Written for the Art Injection series, the performance platform for the company's Performing Medicine project.
Produced in association with Fuel.

2009 Total Theatre Award Special Commendation

"Powerful, honest and life-affirming: if only all incisions to the body were this beautiful." Time Out
"Shaw's obsession with bones, with origins and what lies at our core is what drives a powerful hour of deeply personal probing... I sincerely urge you to spend an hour in the hands of a genius." Edinburgh Festival Magazine
"Exquisite... This is open-heart surgery of the artistic kind, performed without anaesthetic." The Guardian

Tickets: £8.00 (£6.00 concessions, £4.00 Anglia Ruskin students)