Blood Show @ Battersea Arts Centre

Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Chapter Arts Centre and Colchester Arts Centre.

In a room somewhere, two people are locked in an endless gory fight.

Blood Show is a trans celebration of destroying things, including ourselves, in order to create something new. It’s a call to action to put what’s inside on the outside, to allow the mess, and defend against a violent gaze.

Circling around questions of rebirth and how we carry our ghosts with us, Blood Show is part of artist Ocean Hester Stefan Chillingworth’s The Extinction Trilogy. Three works (Monster Show, Blood Show and Nature Show) present a slow experiment in masking performers and trying to delete humans from the stage, in order to make us think more about our curiosity into what people ‘really’ look like.

‘Powerfully and unashamedly clever’  WhatsOnStage

‘Smart, brave and rebellious’ Exeunt

‘Super smart, I couldn’t take my eyes off it’  Culture Wars

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