Fishy 2018 - 2019

“Haunting and gorgeous"

“Epic” 

"imagery was stunning…makes me think how disconnected we are from the effects of our wastefulness."

(Fishy Audiences)

Fishy is a dreamlike, turned nightmarish, post-punk visual performance that takes the effects plastic pollution on our oceans and bodies as a jumping off point to explore new human and non human forms and their materiality. This queer imagining of a future chemical landscape shows life evolving into surreal new forms. Fishy premiered at The Yard’s NEXT Festival (2019) and toured nationally to The Cube Microplex Bristol, Humberton Gallery Hull, Centre for Live Art Yorkshire and was supported by National Lottery Project Grants from Arts Council England. Excerpts of FISHY and early work-in-progresses have shown at The Yard Theatre Live Drafts and First Drafts (2018), The Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Rich Mix London presented by Steakhouse Live Festival (2018).

Fishy was made with the support of The Yard Theatre, Queen Mary University London and National Lottery Project Grants from Arts Council England.

fishy

someone fished a fish once
and found 17 bits of plastic in it
if you cut me open
you’d find plastic in me too.
as time passed the ocean
turned (like my insides) from water
to a thick plastic soup.
with no fresh food bloated fishes
floated to the ocean’s jello surface
with their stomachs
turned up.
my stomach was aching.
the earth’s storms became constant.
winds whipped the congealed ocean surface
throwing the dead fish and plastic dregs
up into the dark and wild skies.
in the depths below the untamed, synthetic waves
something stirred.
i felt it
in my loins.
i felt it
clawing
into the future.

Images: Manuel Vason, Stakehouse Live 2017, Sophie Le Roux The Yard Theatre 2018