Dysbiosis is an exciting and experimental project that blends storytelling, visual theatre, and community collaboration to explore the relationship between the Global North and the more-than-human world. Guided by a lens of queer ecology, the project challenges traditional Western worldviews as well as some of the binary, colonial and heteronormative assumptions behind how our society views Nature.
Dysbiosis began in 2022 and, since then, we have delivered two research and development (R&D) phases with Queens Theatre Hornchurch, a creative nature workshop programme in collaboration with Havering Changing, including workshops with Kalaidescope, an LGBT+ youth project, and a workshop at Mile End Eco Pavilion as part of Season of Bangla Drama. We also ran a workshop in Sheffield as part of Migration Matters.
The workshops and R&D phases all contribute to an ever-evolving, co-created exhibition and perofmance we we have shown as a pilot at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, and in full at Queens Theatre Hornchurch. The photos and video here are from the latter.
The core team is:
Amy Daniels (creative practitioner, lighting)
Amy-Rose Edlyn (stage manager)
Fran Olivares (creative practitioner and performer)
Kathryn Webb (creative practitioner)
Nuke Lagranje (creative practitioner and performer)
Paul Burgess (director-designer, video)
Shakira Malkani (creative practitioner, sound)
Tasnim Siddiqa Amin (assistant director, producer and performer)
Yael Elisheva (creative practitioner)
Zia Álmos Joshua (creative practitioner)
Photos by Hannah Davis
Video filmed by Amy-Rose Edlyn and edited by Paul Burgess
More information: daedalustheatre.co.uk
