Travis Alabanza's OVERFLOW & Impermanence Dance announced as part of Bristol Old Vic's digital season

Photo credit: Sharron Wallace

The Bush Theatre’s acclaimed production of Overflow will be presented as part of Bristol Old Vic’s digital season from 6-8 May.

Bristol-based theatre maker, writer and one of the UK’s leading trans voices Travis Alabanza’s latest play is a hilarious and devastating tour of women’s bathrooms. The piece was recorded in December 2020 and stars Reece Lyons as Rosie.

Cornered into a flooding toilet cubicle and determined not to be rescued again, Rosie distracts herself with memories of bathroom encounters. Drunken heart-to-hearts by dirty sinks, friendships forged in front of crowded mirrors, and hiding together from trouble.

Bristol’s foremost dance company Impermanence also return with a new double bill of online dance work, marking their tenth anniversary. Running from 12-24 April, One More Edit is a collection of works made for film from some of the most exciting artists working in dance, from the UK and overseas, including Edits Film by Marisa Zanotti - a poetic document from 2014 of the final performance by Lea Anderson's all male company The Featherstonehaughs.

With costumes by three-time Oscar Winner Sandy Powell, Anderson's choreography imagines that Fassbinder's seminal film The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a score for the show’s choreography. A tumultuous tour through the potential that is created by combining dance and the moving image.

The second piece, Lady Blackshirt, is a new feature length experimental film, looking back at the growth of modernism and the accompanying radical ideologies of the early twentieth century. The film is an abstract-dance-based-collage work, with new material filmed on the Bristol Old Vic stage during lockdown. It will join the digital stage from 10-22 May.

For more information, please click here.