An award-winning show about grief which ends with an audience singalong in a bar is to tour the UK.
Sh!t Theatre Or What’s Left of Us devised by Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole will be at Soho Theatre in February, then go on to Brighton and Bristol.
Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole said: “There’s a widespread, ancient belief that excessive grief disturbs the dead; that your tears will burn holes in the corpse of your loved one. Which is why it’s important to get merry at funerals, and also why this show has jokes.
“Joy and sorrow don’t cancel each other out – they can exist at the same time.
“We genuinely got into folk music because we were looking for a way to be together in our grief, and this show has come organically out of our very real love for folk music and the real joy we felt when we first went to a singaround at a folk club. At the same time, we aren’t going to shy away from the horror of grief.
“We really recommend staying for the singaround. A folk club singaround isn’t about watching a rehearsed performance, it’s about leading the room in a communal, informal song (and you only have to sing if you want to!)
“We have found it to be a release, a joyful experience to process some quite heavy themes. It really has been cathartic in our previews. At the singaround previews we’ve had audience members lead the room with Estonian folk songs, Disney numbers, the Eastenders theme tune and even a couple of Lighthouse Family bangers.
“Folk can be twee. Yes, it is a bit embarrassing. But it’s also unnerving, terrifying, comforting and joyful. Sh!t Theatre strives for the same. Twee and terrifying.”
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