GORGEOUS CREATURES 1996 – 1997

A Girl-King is born into a world of hypocrisy and folly. Mannered rituals mask the savage playground of her court as she schemes to reveal the vanity and greed surrounding her. Stuffy conventions transform into wild, explosive dancing in an irreverent pageant of color, movement and hilarity.

“A romp through the imagined dreams of a fictitious Queen Elizabeth I in a post-modern vaudevillian pantomime.”

Gorgeous Creatures was funded by the Arts Council Of England, presented in the Dance Umbrella Festival, and toured throughout the UK in 1996 – 97.

PRESS:

“A visually sumptuous spectacle”
Keith Watson, Ham an High, London

“Snaith is an arch-manipulator of scale, a shape shifter, a theatre poet. She and her collaborators create extraordinary sounds and images, established through movement”
Jan Parry, the Observer

“Gorgeous Creatures is a modern contemplation of the ambiguities of a bygone gender, roles and power structures, it is a true work of art made and performed with an eloquence rare in the theatre.”
Alistair Macauley, Financial Times