It’s bad rhyming as radical art practice,
A slow, pained moan, as queer cabaret,
Being a fucking drag, as drag.
Mum, I’m in the fourth dimension, see! is a dance, a poem, a fit of rage, an exorcism and a queer, secular hymn to the impending capitalist apocalypse.
In the cracks between mass extinction and mass production, full automation and a full face of makeup, Mum! channels tensions, crises, and precarious utopias – exhausting and exorcising coherence in a torrent of loud, opulent melodrama.
Performances to date
Yorkshire Dance, Climate Encounters, July 2021
Dance4, Part of NottDance, October 2019
The Marlborough Theatre, Part of Trans Pride, July 2019
The Place, London, Double bill with Rachael Young, March 2019
The Yard Theatre, London, NEXT Festival, Dec 2018.
If you would like to see the full documentation, please email me: hello@esmorgan.com
Credits:
choreographer/performer/writer - Frances Morgan
dramaturg - Charlie Ashwell
sound design - Nicholas Worrall
lighting design - Sorcha Stott-Strzala & Mike Picknett
outside eyes - Eleanor Sikorski & Alexandrina Hemsley
Made with generous support from The Place, The Yard Theatre, Yorkshire Dance, Chisenhale Dance Space and Arts Council England
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“A whip-smart, existential oddity of a work. Mum! is touching and politically potent, part poetic fantasy, part surreal drag-rant. Frances Morgan is a strikingly original voice.”
Orrow Bell, dance artist and Artist Development Manager at The Place