In collaboration with the award-winning theatre company the Clod Ensemble, legendary New York performance artist Peggy Shaw takes the audience on a journey across the landscape of her own body. 

Renowned for her own gender-bending autobiographical work, she recounts her extraordinary experiences of the medical profession from her current perspective as a 65-year-old lesbian grandmother.

MUST weaves together the stories of a lifetime - giving birth on the way to Woodstock, her mother’s electric shock treatment in 1950s America, the loss of a loved one - with projected microscopic images, and live musicians performing a powerful score for piano, double bass and violin.

“Powerful, honest and life-affirming: if only all incisions to the body were this beautiful.” Time Out

"This is open-heart surgery of the artistic kind, performed without anaesthetic." Guardian

Tour schedule

15 March: Oxfordshire Science Festival
20 March: Newcastle Science Festival
23 March: Scottish Arts Council  Arts and Health Symposium
17 and 18 May: Mayfest, Bristol Old Vic
21 May: Behaviour festival, The Arches, Glasgow
25 and 26 May: Queer Up North, Library Theatre, Manchester
27 May-5 June (matinees 29 May, 3 and 5 June): Soho Theatre, London
7 July: Cutting Edge, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Truro campus

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