CRY CRY KILL KILL
a decadent, radical exploration of Exploitation Theory and horror Movies
This is a show about your favourite scary movie. You know, the one with the dead girl in it?
CRY CRY KILL KILL is a radical, indulgent and explosive exploration of horror movies, queerness and exploitation theory. Using multiple on-stage live feeds, live noise music created by sound artist Alicia Jane Turner, and a live wrestling element, the show asks what it means to be the ‘Final Girl’, what it means to be the ‘Monster’, and who gets to survive this goddamn horror movie.
Featuring an unending array of horror movie tropes, deconstructing them and reconstructing them through a Queer lens, the show irreverently plays with the audiences gaze, setting them loose in a hallucinatory fun house of LOLs, hysterical dead girls, monsters and what society deems ‘too much’.* CRY CRY KILL KILL is a wry take on cinema and pop culture’s fascination with exploitation, demolishing and transforming the ‘horror’ and tragedy of cinematic tropes, and reassembling them in a new queer language that’s utterly and completely ours, bb.
*ps this show is definitely,100% too much
CRY CRY KILL KILL has been developed with the support of Barbican Openlab Scheme, Battersea Arts Centre, Jerwood Arts and Cambridge Junction. It was originally developed at the Barbican as a finalist for the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Prize, and further supported through R&D at Theatre Deli. It previewed to a sold out audience at the Brighton Fringe in May 2022.
‘CRYCRYKILLKILL is a wild and whip-crack smart look at the putrid conventions and cliches of all too many horror movies.’ - Sussex Express
