Dry Season
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Dry Season
Summary
Menopause? Seriously? WTF? Kat thought they were far too young to worry about menopause; biology thought differently.
Event Details
Address:Canada Water Theatre
21 Surrey Quays Road
Canada Water
London
Post code:SE16 7AR
Website:www.canadawatertheatre.org.uk
Tickets:Pay-What-You-Decide
Book tickets:www.canadawatertheatre.org.uk/2542/Dry-Season
Telephone:02086924446
Email: reception@thealbany.org.uk
Description
Now their hormones are going haywire, their diary is full of NHS visits and sleep is a distant memory. Join Kat on a journey featuring anxiety, insomnia, and self-conscious jogging as they explore their changing identity, question societal expectations of age and gender, and do their best to navigate the first chaotic year.Interweaving music, movement and medical texts with original poetry and animation, Dry Season is a witty, honest and intimate spoken word theatre show about questioning assumptions and learning to rewrite your story.
Kat Lyons is a queer Bristol-based writer, performer, workshop facilitator and creative producer whose work is grounded in everyday politics and a love of storytelling. Kat has been published in journals, performs widely, and was nominated for the Jerwood Poetry in Performance Award. Their debut collection is forthcoming in 2022 from Verve Poetry Press.
Dry Season was written in response to Kat’s diagnosis and early experience of premature menopause at the age of 39, following 18 months of undiagnosed symptoms including chronic insomnia, depression, and paranoid anxiety. Through internet forums, surveys and interviewing menopausal women, Kat discovered that their initial feelings of shame, isolation and ignorance were shared by countless others. Despite being an experience shared by half of humanity, due to systemic agism and misogyny, menopause is widely seen as something embarrassing and shameful. If it’s mentioned publicly at all, then it’s often the punchline of misogynistic jokes.
Dry Season was created in an attempt to counter this. Kat uses their autobiographical journey to explore societal expectations of age and gender, and to create space for open discussion and wider representation of menopause. Dry Season aims to generate knowledge and empathy between people of different ages, genders, and experiences.
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Accessibility
Access for wheelchair users
Adapted toilet
Level access toilet
Positive about disabled people
Step-free access
