promiscuous/ cities
UK/Australia Season
22-25 June 2022
Embassy Theatre, London
They’ve written endless songs about this city.
Can you feel the street’s pulse, how it rushes through your veins like a drug?
He’s in trouble, she’s falling in love, they’re cheating, she’s trapped and he’s alone.
But keep moving since we mustn’t fall behind.
A symphony of a single night in San Francisco – utopian dream destination of queers and misfits, promiscuous/cities encompasses a night in a big city where each of us is frantically maintaining the myth of ourselves we’ve created. Yet underneath the vision of ourselves that we peddle on social media – like! – there is an aching distance between us.
Presented as part of the British Council's UK/Australia Season 2022.
DIRECTOR / Alyson Campbell
WRITER / Lachlan Philpott
COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER / Meta Cohen
ASSOCIATE ARTIST / El Henderson
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / Sam D L MacKay
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR / Becky Stockley
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER / Bex Kemp
LIGHTING DESIGNER / Laurence Deane
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER / Max Sharp
PERFORMERS / Felicia Akin-Tayo, Omer Cem-Coltu, Ksenia Elinson, Marvellous Ellyone-Fayose, Maximilian Fairley, Adrian Greensmith, Wisdom Iheoma, Felix Kai, Prince Kundai, Marian Lee, Jemma Martin, Sidsel Rostrup, Elinor Solly, Jason Theodoulou
PHOTOGRAPHY / Patrick Baldwin