Stranger Beasts - Wildworks Theatre 18th Sept – 6th Oct 2024

Bel grows up wild and motherless, but as she reaches girlhood her ordeal begins. Forced into an unwanted femininity, she is exploited, quarried, gouged and excavated by those who should love her but wish to tame her. But you cannot tame a wild heart. Bel’s stormy rage at her cruel fate brings a Stranger to the shore. Together they will journey through the Thin Place, the boundary between the land and the sea. A liminal space, neither here nor there, where rules are suspended and Bel and the Stranger can find love and acceptance of their strangeness.

Stranger Beasts is a life story and a love story that explores the transformative nature of strangers. A story that reminds us that despite the surface wounds and scars that we all gather through life, sometimes all it takes is the power of a stranger to hold up a magic mirror to reflect and remind us of what potential and strength lies beneath.

A love song to the land. A wild cry to the skies… that you do not have to inhabit the boundaries and confinements you inherited.

A provocation to remain rooted, yet outward facing, Robust and strong. Weathering the past, yet face bare to the future winds that blow inwards. Ready to face the next chapter.

Conceived and directed by Mydd Pharo Written by Mercedes Kemp and Mydd Pharo

Photos Steve Tanner

Video Josh Pharo

Music Benji Bower