Theatre
Writing Excerpts & Theatre Videos
Crossing, a devised production under the guidance of Elizabeth de Rosa, at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, September 2024. Section on postpartum depression written, choreographed and performed by me in collaboration with the devising cohort.
Crossing, a devised production under the guidance of Elizabeth de Rosa, at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Section on postpartum depression written, choreographed and performed by me in collaboration with the devising cohort.
“Women used to die in childbirth all the time
Now women choose to
Leading cause of maternal deaths is suicide.
But tough shit
Cause
They only gave my husband a two day paternity leave
Can’t lose his job
A baby’s too expensive
It’s already cost me my job
Burden
An infant myself needing care
Not a woman
Not a dependable partner
Not a real mother
Nothing.”
“There was one moment, recently
When a stranger caught me
Looking at his gorgeous arms on the train
So he started to tell me about his watch.
And I didn’t know what to do
My brain was too foggy
I should’ve told him about my
half-helpful-husband,
But I just told him about my bracelet.
And so he touched my arm—
Gently
Checking my reaction
Whether it was OK
Whether I liked it…”
The Selkie and Her Daughter On Land in 2024. An experimental theatre performance inspired by the folklore of the Selkie, co-created with Anna Kopacek.
“SELKIE [Seeing the fisherman]
He’s trembling… not from the cold, but because of me.
6’3”, big man, blushing and shaking from wanting to be close to me.
It makes me feel like I have power over him.
And he’s funny. Stupid fun when I so need a laugh.
Him showing up at the exact moment I need help feels like fate.
Right when I don’t know what to do… he seems to have all the answers.
DAUGHTER, NARRATING
At least for now, she thought, his home would be the safest option.”
People and Plants. Stories of people I've loved, told through plants. Written, animated and performed by me in spring 2024 in London.
“Endless arctic summer days
With someone who was my whole world
Picking forget-me-nots
And patting them on each other’s chests to make them stick:
🎶Gleym-mér-ei
Gleym-mér-ei
Gleym-þú-mér-ei🎶
Only to spend years trying to forget each other.”
Written, directed and performed by Sólveig Eva. Based on Molière’s "Don Juan," exploring what a modern, female version might be like, with his fiscally manipulative traits and hyper-sexuality, while exploring her motives, fears and joys.
Written for the stage, Sólveig later turned it into a short film that combines filmic acting, isolated physical theatre and the male gaze.
“If you yourself have never had a clitoral orgasm
I can best describe it as that clear high pitch note on a violin
or a sweet candy that hits you right here in the jaw as you suck on it and makes you salivate
It’s an angel choir, it’s light, it soars
but a vaginal orgasm is like a roaring earthquake
and when the dick hits just right
it’s like the shock cracks open a fissure
where powerful sensations erupt like lava
bursting through the ground
just to please me until I am trembling so much that I think I’m gonna die
It’s deep, thunderous, rooted
and combined, sustained, repeated many times in a row
they make the wildest symphony”
“You fuck me like that and I shed everything
my skin gives way to release my soul
and I’m soaring in the fucking stratosphere
free from own identity, free from any social ties,
free from anything that isn’t THIS sensation
Fuck me like that, and I don’t care if you get me pregnant
just as long as you don’t pull out for five more minutes
then five more minutes
then five more minutes
just let me be raw and wild and free and ecstatic
and forget that I have a body, forget that I have a name, forget anything beyond THIS bliss
You fuck me like that
and I’ll believe that I love you
Which is why I leave”
Heroes explores feminine examples of heroism across history, folk stories and the mundane, through a devised production, directed by Unnur Elísabet Jökulsdóttir. Currently in development with Spindrift Theatre.