Augustine (Big Hysteria)

Posted on: March 3rd, 2021 by ppEditor

Housemaid and hysteric, Augustine was celebrated in Paris for her dramtic displays of ‘Grande Hysterie’ in the Salpetriere Hospital. Studies by Freud, she was a star in the brilliant Professor Charcot’s ‘Museum of Suffering’.

Like The Elephant Man, she became the centre of the voyeuristic attention of a civilized society, but hers was a peverse and erotic entertainment.

A highly charged testimony, Augustine (Big Hysteria) is full of humour and passion.

Interweaving live music, cinematic projections and poetic text, it is magical, startling and vivid.

Winner of Time Out award for Writing and Direction

Feasting on Air

Posted on: March 3rd, 2021 by ppEditor

Feasting on Air is a fairy story about a young woman told to hold her tongue, or better still bite it off. Its theme is the silence, asexuality, fasting and muteness that are the price of her rite of passage from the undersea world to the dry land of adult human sexuality. It is, partly, about anorexia nervosa. It is about how the young woman grows increasingly aware of how dangerous, but how imperative it is to lose rather than lose her tongue.

The Clink

Posted on: March 3rd, 2021 by ppEditor

“Safe? You want to be funny and safe? You’re asking for the poxy moon!”

Alternative comedian Lucius Brodkin wants a brilliant career. Instead he gets a short, sharp shock. Elizabeth I is tottering at death’s door. Plotters are everywhere. The future looks wobbly. An International Trade Delegation is on its way to London. Who will entertain them? Lucius thinks he’ll hit the big time-but he’s reckoned without the 16th Century backstabbers and City wide boys.

Crux

Posted on: March 3rd, 2021 by ppEditor

“I don’t need God any more – I am God”

France: 13th century. Heresy, blood and burnings. The Doctrine of the Free Spirit celebrates pleasure, passion and freedom from guilt. A corrupt and hypocritical Pope crushes the women who live this outrage.

“We are born. We are. Our flesh is beautiful, more beautiful than cake or the stars”