Have you ever seen a dead body?
SOLACE returns with a brand new show - SHOCK - blending body performance art, experimental electronic soundscapes and live theatre to create a space where flesh, memory, fear and grief collide. Drawing from the themes of Mary Shelley's horror classic Frankenstein, this new and boundary pushing performance asks: What happens to the body when it is no longer yours? When your grief infects the flesh? When the only way to survive is to become the very thing you're terrified you already are?
SHOCK excavates the raw nerves of grief, loss and the fragile boundaries of the human body. Through acts of dissection, transformation and reclamation, the performer moves through a raw anatomy of loss: the loss of a loved one, the loss of control, the loss of what it means to be human. Guided by obtrusive movement, poetic monologues, live video projection, costume spectacle and a live electronic soundscape that fractures, pulses and mutates in real time with the performers body: at times unbearable, at times heartbreakingly still. The space becomes a living autopsy. A sonic wound - that twists flesh into frequency and grief into distortion.
Dark. Tender. Unrelenting.
SHOCK is a confrontation with the self - unflinching, feral, alive…
This is not about becoming a monster.
This is about realising you were never given the choice not to be one.
This is a live dissection of self.
Grief is the first incision.
Following on from a two night sold out show - SUCK - performed at The Pen Theatre last October, Solace Theatre returns with a brand new offering of boundary pushing performance which marries together live theatre and underground performance art. Interpreting yet another horror classic. This time Mary Shelley's iconic novel, Frankenstein.
This show confronts difficult themes such as grief and loss, body horror, simulated sexual violence and self mutilation.
Written and Directed by Sol Harding (@s0l_05)
Co-Written and Original Score by Joe Walsh (@imithe)
Starring SOL (Performer)
Starring Imithe (Live Score)
Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Matchstick Piehouse
213-214 Edward Pl, London SE8 5HD
Doors 20:00
Show 21:00