Who we are
We're HACK Theatre, an emerging socio-political theatre company based in Norwich, and we’re making our Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut this year with Dysney Disfunction, a one-woman show written and performed by Michelle Sewell, winner of the Malcolm Bradbury award, and directed by David Gilbert, who is Cambridge Junction's Regional Young Theatre Director.
Dysney Disfunction is performed with an overriding sense of wit and verve, confronting the issues of love and abuse, displacement, identity, fantasy and reality in Brexit Britain.
Today you can help this important piece of theatre attract the wider audiences that it needs, and help us make a real splash with our Fringe debut.
The show
‘In Brexit Britain happily ever after (and UK residency) is just a marriage visa away. But Australian Alice's visa expires today and she's only got Primark flats for glass slippers, an Oyster card for a pumpkin coach and a prince who won't twerk.
Alice has always thought that love would be her fairytale. Yet now, en route to the airport, she waits forlornly at a London Underground station for her Prince Charming to realise his love and rescue her with a marriage proposal. Without a visa she faces a forced return to a country she doesn’t call home anymore.'
Dysney Disfunction confronts notions of individual displacement and identity as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. It explores the distressing experiences of having to leave behind the people you love and the place you’ve made your home. This is an incredibly important piece, and we are committed to ensuring the wider audience that it deserves, and provide a platform to one of Norwich's emerging theatre companies.
Dysney Disfunction has been developed with the Cambridge Junction, The Barbican, Soho Theatre, and the Norwich Arts Centre with support from the UEA Enterprise Fund, StartEast, the European Regional Development Fund and Arts Council England.
The journey
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