The YelloWing - Trailer

PEST and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival present:

"The YelloWing"

written and performed by Julia Taudevin
directed by Amanda Monofrooe
visual art by Sha Nazir

'Sleep-otel; we're not a hotel, we're optic hell'

Jane is far from home and husband, spending her nights locked in a hotel room with incomprehensible wallpaper.

It is as if dry pigment has been pumping through her veins and now she is alone again she remembers how to see. Walls and furniture take back the life they lived when she was a child and she is ready to work again; she wants to work again. But Jane can't remember how to walk. Or how to talk. Like her mother she only remembers how to sit, and sip tea and taker her pills and wait. Wait to see if it will always be this way.

This highly physical sixty minute solo performance is a contemporary response to turn of the century feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and interrogates our pervasive culture of prescription.

**** "Astonishing" - The Scotsman
**** "Blazing Life" - The Herald

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Scottish
• mental
• health
• theatre
• arts
• glasgow
• inverness
• edinburgh
• performance

[scatterkeir]

agreed!

[GwennieCalderBoyes]

Stunning performance. Catch it if you can