Sanitise

In the most private of spaces you can flush away dirt in an instant… Read more …

One woman alone in her bathroom; a private sanctuary and an unusual venue for self-expression. But there is something dark living beneath the bath and as her inner and outer life is revealed we discover a woman torn between fantasy and fear as she negotiates her relationship with literal and figurative filth.

Sanitise is a playful and original production without words combining physical theatre, dance, music and multimedia to explore our most intimate insecurities and fantasies. What is clean and what is dirty?

The critical consensus

While neither provocative nor hilarious enough to stick too long in the mind, Sanitise is an enjoyable production that avoids too much reflection but dredges up some interesting ideas about the depiction of female sexuality in culture, and where as a society we draw line between acceptable and outrageous.

(*) (*) Christine Irvine, TVBomb, 14/02/2015

It's fifty shades of so wrong, it's right!

(*) Lorna Irvine, Across the Arts, 16/02/2015

Light humour and a playful touch is tinged with something darker and more sinister, but held beautifully in balance by a precise performance and a clever creative team.

(*) Justine Blundell, Edinburgh Guide, 21/02/2015