19:00, Tue 26th – Sat 30th November 2024 at Pembroke New Cellars
Michaelmas Week 7
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Self harm, mental illness, abuse
‘…but I am a blazon. I would be on fire so to know I am whole.’
This psychological horror-comedy balances the levity of farcical delusion with the ground shaking impact of psychosis on perceived reality, truth and what it means to love. Fluctuating between scenes in an imagined church council and Lynchian arguments behind curtains, we see the story of Anthony: a man circling between derealisation and disembodiment in the face of trauma. Folie Circulaire is a genre-challenging exploration of self-destruction which questions whether mental illness can ever exonerate abuse.