CRY CRY KILL KILL

by Louise Orwin

A Decadent, Radical Exploration Of ‘Other’-Ness And Horror Movies (Currently In Development)

This is a show about your favourite scary movie. You know, the one with the dead girl in it?

It’s about wondering whether you would survive a horror film. And the sneaking suspicion that maybe you’re not the victim after all… maybe you’ve been the monster all along. 

Inspired by the increasingly popular genre of horror, ‘Final Girl’ Theory and genealogies of Other-ed bodies, CRY CRY KILL KILL explores what it’s like to live in a world that tells you the only way to survive is to exist within the narrowest tramlines of acceptable identity. 

It asks what happens when the Sad Girl™ facade cracks and the narrative explodes; when the excess slips over the edge, when we take back our bodies and take up space. 

 Featuring an unending array of horror movie tropes, live music and a surprise OTT epic finale, CRY CRY KILL KILL will set you loose in a hallucinatory fun house of LOLs, hysterical dead girls, monsters and what society deems ‘too much’.* 

*ps this show is definitely, 100% too much

 CRY CRY KILL KILL is currently being developed with the support of Barbican Openlab Scheme, Jerwood Arts and Cambridge Junction. It was originally developed at the Barbican as a finalist for the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Prize.