'INTELLIGENT AND SURREAL, THE AGONY OF DEFINITION IS ENTHRALLING’Emma van Boolen, The Place Theatreclaybourne has been in this place as long as they can remember, and they are sure there is something they have to tell you. however, they cannot seem to remember what it was. stuck in this sisyphean nightmare, claybourne once again embarks on the task of trying to remember, of trying to tell you - as they did the day before, and the day before that, and the day before that…
‘PILGRIM-MORRIS EFFORTLESSLY SEGUES BETWEEN NARRATIVE, DANCE AND FUNCTIONAL ACTION, RIVETING IN THIS SOPHISTICATED WORK’Josephine Leask, The Place TheatreTHE AGONY OF DEFINITION is a dance theatre tragicomedy, a journey through words that darts between the boundary of hyperbolised performance and honest vulnerability. answers and absolutes provide us with security, but what happens when the answer does not come?
director / performer: kitty pilgrim-morris
rehearsal assistance / dramaturgy: scilla rajalin, mark crawley, jack trotter
sound designer: kitty pilgrim-morris
set design: kitty pilgrim-morris
design assistance: george bennett
stylist: jack trotter
sound mastering: toby print
prop building / runner: james pilgrim-morris
with special thanks to ellie chick, alex turner, jenna boyd, daisy dancer, christy paul, will bridgland and the resolution team, the henley standard, henley leisure centre and studio wayne macgregor.
performed in resolution festival at The Place theatre london, jan 2024
photographs by ellen oliver