Image description: Back of a woman’s head. Hair covered in hair accessories. Hair clips read the word ‘TRAUMA’
“Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok tells me this show might do that but don't worry we can just trauma bond”
Demi is obsessed with trauma, childhood trauma, naming it, analysing it,healing from it, and getting-on-stage-to-perform-it. That last one might be a trauma response but you can decide that. Having entered her 30’s Demi expected to be more whole, more healed, to not still feel like a child. Because trauma lives in the body and the body keeps the score, and we all know what that means. Disclaimer: Demi doesn't know what that means.
The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, ‘therapise’ culture and how TikTok can heal us all.
Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, In Good Company (mid-career commission), Cambridge Junction (with support New Ideas Fund) and Contact Theatre, in association with Fierce Festival.
Co-commissioned by Derby Theatre, Attenborough Arts Centre and Nonsuch Studios.
Supported by Unlimited, Arts Depot, Jerwood 1:1 fund, Another Route, Belgrade Theatre, University of Worcester
CREATIVE TEAM
Lead Artist - Demi Nandhra Performer - TBC Director - Francesca Millican-Slater Set & Costume Designer - Katherina Radeva Lighting Designer - Lizzie Moran Composer & Sound Designer - Iain Armstrong Executive Producer - Rafia Hussain Assistant Producer - Humira Imtiaz Production Manager - Lizzie Moran Creative Mentor & Mental Health Access Consultant - Viv Gordon Stage Manager - Amy Duckworth Artist Access Assistant - Kao Hove Artist Wellbeing Practitioner TBC Fight Director - TBC
With thanks to Ali Wilson, Paula Varjack..
