Elevate Festival: Playing Dead (but why am I still talking?)
Written by Rosalie Roger-Lacan. Performed by Alice Bebber.
She’s dead. But she’s not done talking.
When a young woman dies and wakes up post-mortem on a theatre floor, she is forced to keep performing: the tech won’t let her rest, the cues won’t let her stop, and the audience won’t disappear.
Playing Dead is a sharp, slippery, and honest solo show about the chaos of being perceived, the terror of intimacy, and how some stories won’t die until you tell them right. It’s about love, vulnerability, sex, memory, milk, and most of all, about a man named Patrick.
Playing Dead spirals, seduces, and sucker-punches; a raw confession delivered at 100 miles per hour.
Alice Bebber and Rosalie Roger-Lacan are Devon and Bristol-based theatremakers with a shared obsession for gutsy, funny, female-driven work. They met at the University of Bristol, where Rosalie co-founded a theatre company, Talkers & Doers, that Alice was heavily involved with as an actor and creative. Since then, they’ve worked on shows together across Bristol, London, and the Edinburgh Fringe, with multiple sold-out runs. Their collaboration is built on friendship, mischief, and a love of storytelling that’s bold, comedic, and unashamedly feminine.
Elevate Festival
This event is part of Elevate Festival, a week-long celebration of new work from South-West artists.
Barnfield TheatreThis performance features sexually explicit content and grief.