Blow Off

theatre, music-and-opera

An explosive piece of guerrilla-gig-theatre about the roots of extremism - a blistering monologue backed up by an all female punk band.

about the production

"I’m not going to tell you her hair colour. Her skin colour. Whether she’s got an almond or a heart shaped face. All you need to know, right now, is that she is a person. Walking up a street. A street that you know. A street we all know. Towards a giant, glistening tower." This fierce and playful feminist work explores the psychology of extremism with haunting melodies and progressive punk riffs in an explosive piece of guerilla-gig-theatre. Blow Off premiered in Traverse One during the Edinburgh Festival 2016 to rave reviews and sold out houses ever since.

about the artist

Blow Off is: award-winning performer, playwright, theatre-maker Julia Taudevin, whose published work includes Mrs Barbour’s Daughters, Some Other Mother, Chalk Farm and who has toured with work from the National Theatre in London, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse Theatre across the UK and internationally; composer-musician Kim Moore, whose work with Barrowland Ballet has toured internationally and records and performs under the name WOLF; guitarist and singer Beldina Odenyo, who performs as Heir Of The Curse; musician, producer and sound designer Susan Bear, who has performed across the world with Tuff Love, Pictish Trail and Malcolm Middleton.

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