19:30, Thu 30th November – Sat 2nd December 2023 at Fitzpatrick Hall
Michaelmas Week 8
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Sexual assault, rape, abuse (verbal, emotional, sexual), needles, incest, death, blood, torture, portrayals of adverse mental health, discrimination (in the form of homophobia), substance abuse.
‘I will always love you.
I will never lie to you.
I will never betray you.
On my life.’
What is it to desire? To express desire? To prevent desire? Cleansed engages with these questions and more, mediated through a vocabulary of violence. There are betrayals and dismemberments, hopes and communions, as each character struggles to come to terms with how the love they require damages those around them