MISSING looks at the notion of queer women’s erasure from history during the rise of the far right in 1930s Europe.

What is the notion of queer erasure? How does it impact people’s lives?

Three pivotal queer women whose voices and stories have been erased from history: Margaret Skinnider (she led a battalion of men in the 1916 Uprising); Bronislava Nijinska (sister to Nijinsky and seminal European choreographer in the 1920’s); and Irene Polo (Catalan journalist who wrote extensively about the Spanish Civil War).

‘MISSING’ looks at the notion of erasure and invisibility, using these queer women’s erasure from history during the rise of the far right in 1930s Europe, to look at possible global parallels between then and now.

Shifting between the historic and the current, the global and the autobiographical, Missing becomes a very personal look at the notions of invisibility and erasure.

Warnings:Alcohol may be present at this event

  • Brief reference to suicide
  • Tongue-in-cheek striptease
  • Potentially strobe; artist will confirm closer to the time

When: August 16th @ 8.00PM (Doors 7.30PM)
Where: Circus Factory Cork
Age: 16+ with a guardian
Tickets: €20+ booking fee
(Tickets are €15 with €5 as a donation. If this is not affordable for you, please use the discount code TB5 to bring the price back to €15 +booking fee.)

Accessibility:

Circus Factory is accessible by wheelchair with a wooden ramp with steel grips leading up to the venue with a wooden grab rail.

The toilets in the building are not wheelchair accessible.

Guide dogs are welcome throughout the space.

Cast / Crew credits:

Directed, performed and written by: Tara Brandel
Set Design: Barnaby Munn (Pirates of the Carabina)
Costumes: Angharad Matthews
Music: Lea Miklody

Acknowledgements

Supported by Cork County Arts, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Circus Factory Cork, Tramway Glasgow, Dance Base Edinburgh, Dance Ireland