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Butcher Holler Here We Come: CANCELLED

Ticket Information

  • General Admission: $21.50 each ($20.00 + $1.50 fees)
  • Group Price GA: $19.45 each ($18.00 + $1.45 fees)

Dates

  • Sun 22 Mar 2020, 8:00pm–9:00pm
  • Mon 23 Mar 2020, 8:00pm–9:00pm
  • Tue 24 Mar 2020, 8:00pm–9:00pm

Restrictions

R13

Listed by

Dunedin Fringe

A critically-acclaimed and multiple award-winning production, this immersive psychological thriller is a descent into the male psyche-in-crisis. Circa 1973. Eco-political. Emotionally-wrought. Poetically-harrowing. Darkly-comedic. An epic roller coaster sensory-ride, entirely lit by headlamps.

BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME descends into the interior landscape of the male psyche-in-crisis. ‘Toxic Masculinity’ is examined at its very source: five working class coal miners provide an archetypical cross-section of manhood which, when turned in on itself, negotiates a poetic and horrifying reckoning upon their own history. The result is a hallucinatory framework where secrets, lies, carnal desires, and traumatic lineages are unearthed and reversed. Other connotations of this toxicity are given dramatic voice through the politics of environmentalism, class, sexual orientation, and faith – all in a rapid-pace meditation on survival and the nature of reality itself.

Told in near-to-total darkness, with the use of headlamps to illuminate the actors while they weave in and around the audience, the play invites a visceral, terrifying, and emotionally-wrought forging of manhood as it actively interrogates itself, against the backdrop forces of an un-anthropomorphic world. Proclaimed as “a jarring and fine introduction” to the festival by the New York Times, BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME is a new American play that fuses the philosophy of Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty with a poetic dialogue akin to Breece D’J Pancake’s short stories to provoke a deeply and socially-relevant conversation about gender, nature, economy, spirituality, and the phenomenology of storytelling.

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Fringe Tags; Theatre, Physical Theatre, Storytelling

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