PAPER. SCISSORS. STONE.
A POETIC, GLITTERING, SHARP-EDGED PEEK INTO GENDER CONDITIONING.
Fringe First-winner Katie Bonna (Dirty Great Love Story, All The Things I Lied About) returns with a new piece, inspired by the Greek chorus and the golden age of musical theatre, Paper. Scissors. Stone. tells the interwoven stories of three generations of women living in a small market town, all linked by a local school. Over the course of a weekend, each character is forced to confront how much they control their behaviour – or how much they are controlled by it.
Punctuated with glitter-soaked songs and swimming in poetry, Paper. Scissors. Stone. subverts recognizable theatrical conceits to crack open the gender conditioning we recognize, but don’t always see.
Producer - Tara Finney
Director - Hannah Joss
Composer & Sound Designer - Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Musical Director - Gaz Tomlinson
Movement Director - Naomi Said
Designer - Lily Arnold
Dramaturg - Sarah Dickenson
Paper. Scissors. Stone. was developed with the generous support of Live Theatre, Newcastle, and Arts Council England.
Performances took place at Elevator Festival (Newcastle) and Vault Festival (London) in March 2018.
