Drowning In The Sound

2018 - Ongoing
Theatre Performance, Verbatim (One Hour Thirty)
Ready to Tour

I wanted my friends to be fucked like I. . .
like I wanted one of them to be like abused. 
I wanted one of them too. . . 
I just wanted one of them to feel how I feel.

The Midnight Florists present an opportunity to change how we think, feel, and talk about assault. In a reperformance of survival, and examination not of the act but the consequence, not the fall but the rise. A gathering of voices that speak out through surrogate mouths, to protect those who are unable.

Collating together over twenty-five hours of verbatim recordings gifted by survivors of domestic, coersive, and sexual violence. Drowning in The Sound tells in their own words the very real stories of “Alex”, “Maisie” and “Sarah” as they recover in the wake of great pain.

Supported by music, dance, multimedia, and broadcast this performance redirects the #MeToo narrative from acts of abuse and those who conduct them to the slow and necessary recovery of those who survived. Exploring the dark nuances of survivorship, Drowning In The Sound is ‘relentless in its attack on the subject and celebrating of the voices of victims of abuse’ (Robert Daniels, Bootworks Theatre).

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CREDITS

Devised & Developed | Andrew Martin Lee & The Midnight Florists

Performed | Andrew Martin Lee, Erin Wrightson, Amber Elbishlawi, & Jonnie Kimmins

Directed | Andrew Martin Lee & The Midnight Florists

Produced | Andrew Martin Lee

Dramaturgy | Rachael Clerke

Sound | Andrew Martin Lee

Developed as #Progression Resident Company at The Greenwich and Lewisham Young Peoples Theatre 

Supported by | The University of Chichester, Bootworks Theatre, & Life Centre

With Thanks | Olu Adaeze, Tsinder Ash, Ira Brand, Rob Daniels, David Doust, Nicolas Ferguson, Ian Hornsby, Kayleigh Hunt, Tilly Ingram, Lucy, Jenkinson, Phoebe Rhodes, Rhiannon Tomes, Parisa Shariati, Amanda Palmer, Nicky Van Tooren, The 2018/19 University of Chichester Theatre & Theatre Collectives Cohort, and Alex and Sarah