A Spectacle of Herself

​A bold, cinematic, acrobatic odyssey through the frontiers of mental health, queerness, rage and the 21st-century space race.
 
Join Laura on a mission to serve herself up [in]appropriately for your consumption in a bold, cinematic, acrobatic odyssey through the frontiers of mental health, queerness, rage & the 21st-century space race. Directed by Ursula Martinez, with Laura’s critical and cheeky signature mix of autobiography, lip-sync, video and aerial rope, A Spectacle of Herself navigates the personal and political to seek out new worlds and ways to be seen.
 
‘a powerful and empowering piece of work’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Scotsman), ‘Mesmerising!’ – Theatre Travels, ‘wildly funny and deeply touching’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (The Skinny), ‘a testament to the transformative power of theatre’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Morning Star), ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Everything Theatre
 
Laura Murphy is a genre-defying queer performance maker from Bristol who makes text-driven and dynamic physical performances about things that she thinks need to be talked about. Challenging, intimate and spectacular, her work is a cross-disciplinary fusion of theatre, live art, circus and verbal explosion.
 
Strictly 16+ Contains nudity, strong language and frank discussions of sex and the body