About GIVE OR TAKE:

Blending clowning, dance-theatre, and live electronic music, GIVE OR TAKE offers a queer critique of oppressive and imperialist bargains.

Join Bold Mellon Collective as they explore the power dynamics of gift-giving across

relationships and generations. Drawing from living folklore centred on femme resistance, they take the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through time. The performance captivates with its spontaneous problem-solving, finds humour in its absurdity, and reveals a raw intimacy through its vulnerability, all propelled by a dynamic soundscape of pulsing kicks and soaring synths.

Unpacking celebration and transaction, GIVE OR TAKE asks: does anything ever truly come for free?

 

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Accessibility:

GIVE OR TAKE is a relaxed performance and will be BSL interpreted. If you have any questions, please email boldmellon@gmail.com

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Accompanying Workshop:

Emilia and Annie are excited to invite you to the GIVE OR TAKE accompanying workshop. It is “Pay What You Feel” and free to performance ticket holders. More information about it here.

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Creative Team:

Devised and performed by Emilia Nurmukhamet and Dear Annie

Produced by Desree and Bold Mellon Collective

Lighting Design by Theodor Spiridon

BSL Interpretation by Faye Alvi

Sound Dramaturgy by Jim Osman

 

About Bold Mellon Collective: 

Bold Mellon is an award-nominated multidisciplinary arts collective. Run by artists, for artists, Bold Mellon Collective creates and sustains uplifting art platforms for underrepresented LGBTQIA+ creatives. We’ve been artists in residence at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (2021), NDT Broadgate (2021), Above the Stag Theatre (2021-2022), UGLY DUCK (2024) and Stanley Arts (2022 - ongoing).

 

GIVE OR TAKE has been commissioned by Stanley Arts, and is supported by Arts Council England.

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Praise for past work:

 

OFFIES award nominated 

Belinda 2023, **** (4 stars) ‘eccentric and experimental, from Everything Theatre

 

Forgiving (My Mother) 2024 , ***** (5 stars)  ‘Not to be missed’ , from Lost in Theatreland

 

Audience Feedback from the GIVE OR TAKE WIP

 

‘The synergy between Annie and Emilia is like nothing I've ever witnessed.’ 

 

‘the play is current and important’

 

‘Emilia and Annie are a joy to watch’

 

‘extremely beautiful’

 

‘Incredible chemistry between the performers’

 

‘dynamic, captivating and very powerful’