I Got Dressed In Front Of My Nephew Today

"intellegent, sincere and genuinely affecting"

"extremely funny... brave and moving"

(EDINBURGH SPOTLIGHT, 5 STARS)

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"hilarious and immediately sobering."

(TOTAL THEATRE)

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“Tonight, I’m going to expose to you the length to which I go to become magnificent.”

 

The truth is messy; it’s ridiculous; it’s painful(ly funny); it’s shocking.

 

Exposing and deconstructing our beauty ‘secrets’ for the audience, we begin to undress universal problems of self-image: the temporal, financial and physical costs of beautification; egos and insecurity; empowerment and oppression; and our responsibility as inspirations/influences.  Whilst Claire and Katherine explore the director/performer relationship as part of the act, I Got Dressed uses direct address, projection and questionable dance moves, interspersed with audio recordings of two young nephews.

 

A bare-faced exploration of the bizarre, comic and surreal truths behind the act of getting dressed, inspired by the astute questions of a 2.5 year old boy. Interplaying facts, figures, philosophy, candid storytelling, bizarre humour and Beyonce, help us to unpack the dressing ritual of The Female. Did you really ‘wake up like this’? 

 

How can we re-appropriate what the idealised image has taught us as we've grown up and moulded our bodies around and against an excess of the air-brushed beauty? Let's put the ideal on stage and make something else of it.

 

Baring the truths of beauty regimes we immerse our audience in a riotous, a-typically sexy and messy hour of entertainment that will keep them talking beyond the show about everything from hair removal to fetishised commodities. I Got Dressed provides the space for these conversations to begin and continue.