Drowning In The Sound

2018 - Ongoing
Theatre Performance, Verbatim (One Hour)
Final Stage Research Development

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 unable to speak out.

Collating together over twenty hours of verbatim recordings gifted by survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. Drowning in The Sound tells in their own words the very real stories of “Alex” and “Sarah” who were assaulted in the same month of the New York Times article that would bring worldwide attention not just to the #MeToo movement but the abusers and abuses of power across the world.

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).

CREDITS

Devised & Developed | Andrew Martin Lee & The Midnight Florists

Performed | Andrew Martin Lee, Rhiannon Tomes, & Lucy Jenkinson

Directed | Andrew Martin Lee & Phoebe Rhodes

Produced | Kayleigh Hunt

Dramaturgy | Rachael Clerke

Sound | Andrew Martin Lee, Nicolas Ferguson, and Tsinder Ash

Audio/Visual | Blue Seat Studios

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

With Thanks | Olu Adaeze, Ira Brand, Rob Daniels, David Doust, Ian Hornsby, Tilly Ingram, Parisa Shariati, Amanda Palmer, Nicky Van Tooren, The 2018/19 University of Chichester Theatre & Theatre Collectives Cohort, and Alex and Sarah

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