COMPLEX comes to the Anatomy Theatre & Museum: only 135 tickets available!
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"Not them.
Me.
Tell me."
Ilo thinks she's about to save lives. Oli thinks they're about to be saved. Two letters arrive on the same day, leading them both into a labyrinth that stretches even their overactive imaginations, and turns everything they thought they knew about themselves upside down - in all the wrong ways.
COMPLEX unpacks the Kafkaesque phenomenon of being told you are “too complex” for complex trauma treatment.
Calling on sci-fi, nonsense poetry, melodrama and music where realism just isn't real enough, we might have to sing to you once or twice - but only when we really don't know what else to do.
RAT is thrilled to be sharing its first full-length co-created show with you all!
Inspired by recurring themes from our first year of core group sessions, as well as research findings from the PATHWAY study at Kings College London, this show is a celebration of what we all know from lived experience and academic evidence about the power of peer support in a culture where complex trauma just isn't acknowledged and all we can rely on is each other.
It is also a call to all those with power over mental health spending to invest in the survivors who are doing everything they can to keep themselves and each other going.
We can't think of a more suitable place to premiere the show than the Anatomy Theatre & Museum at Kings College London's Strand campus. Not only does it honour the trust that the PATHWAY Study team has put in us to highlight their findings, and their correlation with our lived experiences. From 1927, the original audiences in this space came to watch animals being dissected. The audiences of COMPLEX will observe the way in which stigmatising clinical responses to complex trauma symptoms seek to dissect the individual to find out what is rotten within the survivor - rather than observing and listening to what is rotten in the world outside the survivor.
We're on at 8pm on 11th, 12th and 13th November, with strictly only 135 tickets available across the whole run - so snap yours up quickly now before they're all gone!
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