INDESTRUCTIBLE - Lighthouse Poole, Saturday 21 September
Monday, September 16, 2024
Proteus Theatre presents INDESTRUCTIBLE
SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER - 8pm (SHERLING STUDIO)
Tickets and information 01202 280000
When men behave in unacceptable ways, why do we first ask the women close to them why they did nothing?
Playing Lighthouse Poole on Saturday 21 September, Indestructible is a fiercely theatrical show from award-winning Proteus Theatre that questions whether we can, or should, separate the art from the artist? And asks how far do the ripples of consequence spread?
Catherine Shaw spent the 90s shocking the art world with her provocative performance art. She’s always called herself a feminist, but looking back through the lens of #MeToo, she’s questioning how much she enabled the culture she now sees being called out.
When an ambitious Curator approaches her to put together an exhibition of female Artists at a major new gallery; a scandal breaks and unwittingly caught in the centre, she begins to question everything.
“I’m tired, I’m tired of trying to play the system, I’m tired of trying to fight the system and I’m tired of feeling tired about it.”
Indestructible takes in uncompromising female Artists, from Lee Miller to the Guerrilla Girls via Sinead O’Connor and Taylor Swift, to ask: why is it still so difficult for female Artists to succeed? And why are women always the Muse, never the Artist?