Join Pretzel Cage in the therapy chair for Drag Neurosis — a surreal exploration of psychoanalysis, interpretation, and transformation.
Drawing on Bella Freud’s interview series Fashion Neurosis as both source material and provocation, this new work spirals into the self-obsessed obsessing-over-the-self: fragmenting and reforming dialogue into abstract, non-linear, and deeply subjective streams of vocalised consciousness.
Drag Neurosis unfolds as a series of lip-sync monologue journeys, displaced between Butoh-inspired movement and visceral physical expression. The work delves into subconscious terrain, discomfort, tension, hilarity and paradox where meaning slips, fractures, and reforms.
Through an editorial process of redaction and reconfiguration, each monologue is rerouted toward new subjective interpretations, charged with character, implication, and suggestion. Becoming undeniably autobiographical rumination's on drag, gender, queerness and transness.
Expect a performance of the strange, the subversive, the absurd, the poignant and the potentially uncomfortable.
Joining Pretzel Cage on the night is a performance intervention by the enigmatic and enchanting Kuba Pawełczak: Butoh dancer, movement practitioner, and theatre maker.
Doors: 07:30
Show: 08:00
Accessibility Information:
ACCESS INFO
Sadly, both floors of The Divine are not currently accessible as we do not have a lift.
- The ground floor, main bar of The Divine has level access.
- There is an accessible toilet in the main bar.
- The cabaret and club space are in the basement of the venue. There is no lift.
- There are 17 wide steps down to the basement with handrails on either side, this is
where the show will take place.
- There are two sets of gender-neutral toilets downstairs, they are not wide enough
for wheelchairs.
If you need further information, please refer to The Divine ‘About’ page on the
website. www.thedivine.co.uk or email us direct on info@thedivine.co.uk