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“A physical theatre masterpiece.” - Get the Chance Wales
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Following sold out runs at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe and the VAULT Festival, new performance work YOU ARE GOING TO DIE comes to Southwark Playhouse Borough for a limited run. Performed entirely naked, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE is a nail-biting descent into existential anxiety as humanity stares down the proverbial toilet.
At once comic, bleak and beautiful, Scott-Rowley, the creator of the 2017 sixteen ★★★★★ awarded and internationally touring show THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT evokes a world full of playful anarchic energy and mischievous bubbling humour, as his fantastical personas navigate the dark edges of existence and despair.
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YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, a surreal meditation on annihilation, rests on the knife edge between physical theatre and performance art. It offers a shared purge and illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche, revealing compassion and humour in the most unlikely of places.
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"Scott-Rowley’s incredible physical performance is utterly captivating, holding the audience with every pained gesture and moment of levity.” - British Theatre Guide
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"The overall effect is both monstrous and magical. Magical because, here, dying is framed, not as a process of atrophy, but rather as an act of accretion or accumulation: a celebration, a natural gathering of speed and experience, a means of moving towards the end, unafraid.” - The Skinny
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“YOU ARE GOING TO DIE is a physical theatre masterpiece. It is entirely absorbing, entertaining, humorous but hitting really poignant spots in every audience member.” - Get the Chance Wales
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“A crowd-pleasing, brilliantly vulgar spectacle... it serves as a jubilant, much-needed, collective catharsis..” – Fringe Biscuit
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“Takes you places you’d never dream of or dare to step into of your own volition..” – The Theatre Times
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“Exquisitely absurd physical theatre in a cyclical rhythm, create a world of utter existential dread, which, much like death, there is no escaping.” – The Student
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“Nobody does character work like Adam Scott-Rowley. He’s the most fascinating, defiant, mind-tingling performance artist you’ll ever see.” – Everything Theatre
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“Physically astonishing and vocally brilliant 60 minutes hovers between tragedy and farce, dread and hilarity.” - Lyn Gardner for The Stage
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“Scott-Rowley is a remarkably talented performer, who feels less like he’s playing these strange creatures than being possessed by them.” - The Scotsman
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“An exhortation to embrace life – in all its richness, its strangeness and, yes, its degradations – while we can..” - The Arts Desk
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“Adam Scott-Rowley’s characterisation and physicality are a wonder to behold.." – Shy Strange Manic
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“Just incredible performance skills that are second to none.” - Theatre Reviews Design
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Created and Performed by: ADAM SCOTT-ROWLEY
Produced by: THE PRODUCTION EXCHANGE
Co-created with: JOSEPH PROWEN & TOM MORLEY
Lighting Design: MATT CATER
Photography: RYAN BUCHANNAN