We are raising money to develop Home Sweet Hell, a poetry and theatre show written and performed by Maedb Joy from Sexquisite Events.
We are raising £3850 to develop a work in progress of Home Sweet Hell by Maedb Joy to be performed at Camden People's Theatre on the 6th of June. These fees will cover 1 week of rehearsal with the performer + director, sound designer, lighting design + marketing.
About the show
Ruby has been camming on and off since she was 14 years old. Initially groomed into sex work, she finds herself re-entering the sex industry to support her career as a writer. Home Sweet Hell follows her as she destroys her long-term relationship, leaves the only place that ever felt like home, and navigates what it means to exist as a working class creative in London.
Sitting at the intersection of feminist vs anti-feminist sex work arguments, we watch as she performs her trauma for the male gaze in an attempt to access the future she has trained for.
Home Sweet Hell frames sex work as a decision made in the face of poverty, an inescapable repeated pattern, and one that comes written in permanent ink.
A mixture between devised and written work, the script has been pieced together from poems written on the backs of till roll while working minimum wage jobs, verbatim cam room chats, poetry freestyles, written duologues and performance poems.
This project successfully funded on 22nd May 2023