Curfew

CURFEW

What would you do if men had a curfew?

Run with headphones on? Wear whatever you want? Dance in the streets?

Two strangers meet at a bus stop, both on their way home.  Curfew takes audiences on a journey through public space in women’s shoes. The 30-minute show reimagines public spaces as a place for joy, instead of fear. Expect movement, drag kings, verbatim voices, and media mash-ups as we explore the wild reality of gendered violence, victim-blaming and the dream of a world without it.

After the show, we conduct  a post-show discussion to gather audiences insights into how we can build safer streets together to feed into our whole-system approach to tackling gendered violence. 

A curfew isn’t the solution, but there is a problem. 

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"Phenomenal performance. So powerful, real. and bittersweet. Genuinely made me tear up thinking of all the things that fems go through for as long as we have existed and yet, nothing ever changes. Thank you for bringing more awareness to this topic".
Audience MemberTemple Church, Bristol
"Beautiful and moving."
Lauren Youtube Comment
"I really enjoyed thinking about a curfew for men and the world of possibilities this brought with it. Opportunities to be free and joyous and open and light, endless possibilities to do mundane things safely and without fear the usual background overthinking calculating fear that is always there as a woman."
Audience MemberTemple Church, Bristol
"Spot on "
Audience Member Temple Church, Bristol

Credits

Curfew was shortlisted for Pleasance Theatre’s Charlie Harthill Edinburgh Fringe Fund. Programmed at: 

  • Camden People’s Theatre: Calm Down, Dear Festival
  • Worthing Theatres and Museum: Spin Out Festival 
  • Temple Church, Bristol: Insane Root’s Henry V Community Programme 

Team: 

  • Performer/Devisers: Daz Scott & Martha Harrison 
  • Sound Designer: Fraser Owen

R&D/Concept Design Team: 

  • Producers: Hannah Hogben & Polls Santos 
  • Producer Intern: Shiv Kilsby 
  • Sound Designer: Fraser Owen
  • Sound Design Intern: Amir Iman
  • Set & Costume Designer: Alice Sales
  • Set & Costume Design Intern: Lorna Grey 
  • Video & Creative Caption Designers: Millie Hawkes & Strawberry Pope 
  • Creative Caption Consultant: Ben Glover 
 
Photos by Alfred Taylor 

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