A woman walks into a cafe. She orders a coffee. The barista doesn’t understand her request. The woman loses her sh*t. Chaos reigns.

This offbeat collaboration between award-winning playwright Vivienne Franzmann and choreographer and psychotherapist Frauke Requardt, brings together 22 very different eyewitness accounts of one everyday altercation to show how our nervous systems are stuck in the Stone Age. 

Performed by two dancers, an actor and a drummer (and one bear). Anatomy of Survival is a show for all the nervous systems in the auditorium. Come and feel the rise and fall of yours.

Credits

Cast and Creatives

• Co-Directors: Frauke Requardt & Vivienne Franzmann  
• Choreography: Frauke Requardt and performers  
• Writer: Vivienne Franzmann  
• Performers: Bea Bidault, Kath Duggan and Neil Callaghan  
• Composer & Live Musician: Stefano Ancora  
• Designer: Hannah Clark Lighting Designer: Lucy Hansom  
• Sound Design & Production: Chameleon drums & perc Studio 

Commissioned and co-produced by The Place. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by the Royal Philharmonic Society with funding from the RPS Drummond Lockyer Fund for Dance. 

This performances is part of THIS IS DANCE, co-presented by Fabric and Birmingham Hippdrome in the Patrick Studio