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Ray Young: OUT

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Defiantly challenging homophobia and transphobia across our communities, OUT is a duet, a conversation between two bodies, reclaiming Dancehall and celebrating queerness amongst the bittersweet scent of oranges.

Winner of the 2017 South East Dance ‘A Place to Dance’ Brighton Fringe Award and nominated for the 2017 Total Theatre & The Place Award for Dance.

An interdisciplinary performance inspired by ongoing global struggles for LGBTQIA+ rights, OUT is a defiant challenge to the status quo. Bravely embracing personal, political and cultural dissonance, this work smashes through our violent colonial histories to reimagine, reclaim and celebrate our delicious queer future.

Pay What You Decide

Pay What You Decide (PWYD) tickets are available for this event. These are limited to 20 tickets per performance, with a maximum of 2 tickets available per customer. Find out more.

Credits

• Creator & Director: Ray Young
• Assistant Director: Esme Allman Performers: Azara Meghie & Bambi Phillips Jordan
• Producer: Steph Be with Jenna Mason
• Production Manager: Anna Smith
• 2024 Production Movement Director: Nandi Bhebhe
• Movement Consultant: nussatari
• Lighting Design: Nao Nagai Set Design: Naomi Kuyck-Cohen
• Sound Design: Naomi Jackson
• Sound Engineer: Vincent Robinson
• Costume Design: Mia Maxwell
• Assistant Costume Designer: Kyara Chapman
• Production Dramatherapist: Wabriya King
• Casting Consultant: Ri McDaid-Wren
• Access Assistants: Mable Cable & Francis Slip
• Original Co-Creator and Performer: Dwayne Antony
• 2019-20 Performer and Additional Devising: marikiscrycrycry
• Original Outside Eye: Joseph Mercier
• Original Dramaturgical Support: Martin Hargreaves

Funders

The 2024 restaging of the work has been supported by Cambridge Junction, Sadler’s Wells and Arts Council England.

Previous iterations of the work have been supported by The Marlborough Theatre, The Yard Theatre, IBT, Leicester Curve, South East Dance and Greenwich University.

Marketing credits

• Content Manager: Francis Slip
• Graphic Designer: Sam Thorne
• Photographer: Glodi Miessi
• Videographer: Ella Frost
• Lighting by: Robbie White
• Gaffer: Stefano Venturi
• Photoshoot Costume Designer: Mia Maxwell
• Photoshoot Assistant Costume Designer: Kyara Chapman
• Photoshoot Make-Up Artist: Bilan Suliman
• Photoshoot Studio: Kunstraum

Content notice

The performance references experiences of transphobia and homophobia. The performance also contains sounds of people eating, partial nudity, haze, flashing lights and loud music. It also involves oranges and may not be suitable for those with certain allergies.

Show duration:

1 hour