Unhealthy Victims plunges us into a fancy vortex of hazard and suspense because it fearlessly debunks sufferer expectations and myths…so there is no such thing as a such factor as a superb sufferer.
Described as each nuanced and provocative (Centre Stage, Stage Buddy) Unhealthy Victims picks up the place psychological thrillers like Promising Younger Girl and Anatomy of a Scandal left off. Pickering’s writing is Sarah Kane meets Noel Coward with the deviousness of Phoebe Waller- Bridge to flip a state of affairs on its head.
This workshop is a particular invite to preview the work, and is impressed by Pickering’s one act performs which were efficiently staged all over the world. It represents their subsequent stage of growth—a re-conceived, single and cohesive night of theatre, underneath the incisive directorial imaginative and prescient of Erica Gould. Unhealthy Victims stands as a blunt, truthful exploration of male- feminine conduct in energy, intercourse and crime giving a voice to what typically stays unstated.
The work explores the interwoven complexity between sexuality and hazard, energy and vulnerability, complicity and culpability, guilt and innocence—pushed by robust, bad-ass feminine characters and their free will—but, fatefully, pitted in opposition to male entitlement. True to absurdist and existentialist theatre, it’s an investigation into the relativity of fact, with characters trapped in opposition to each other, in a gradual decline into hell.
Pickering says, “I at all times really feel I’m completed writing about these themes, however life retains giving extra materials as so many ladies have these tales—however they’re silenced to inform them. As a author, the voice in my head is loud and clear, I’ve to jot down them. Audiences may be shocked by a few of my tales, however afterwards, in addition they thank me, particularly girls—however males as effectively.”
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