The creator of the award-winning THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT will bring a brand-new surreal meditation to VAULT Festival to caution us all of our impending annihilation. Performed entirely naked, Adam Scott-Rowley’s YOU ARE GOING TO DIE is a nail-biting descent into the loneliness, pain and existential anxiety of our time.
Audiences should prepare to brace themselves for a shared purge, as this show illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche, kindles compassion in the most unlikely of places, and encourages us to re-emerge from these depths together with kindness and humility. Funny and darkly surreal, the arresting piece explores the awe-inspiring unlikelihood of our existence and encourages people to zoom out of their daily lives to consider the amazing perspective that we are all alive and sharing this beautiful planet together. Peppered with intense moments, the audience will always be brought back from the darkness with humour, humility, and vulnerability.
In this unique performance, Scott-Rowley uses nudity to form a genuine presence with the audience by creating an extremely vulnerable performance. This practice frames vulnerability as an attitude rather than a state, and considers it a strength, not a weakness. Vulnerability is about opening up to our experience non-judgmentally with acceptance and bravery, rather than hiding away or distracting ourselves from what we feel is confronting or anxiety-inducing.
The show will explore spiritual concepts such as no-self, as well as aspects of masculinity, queerness, and the solidity of identity. Characters and emotions will be deconstructed live in front of the audience, showing the unusual closeness of extreme emotions such as joy and sorrow, pain and ecstasy, and hatred and love.
Adam Scott-Rowley comments, What with the wars, pandemics, Brexit, thirteen years of Tory brutality, and the planet burning up, I thought it might be the right time to don my birthday suit and create another show for you. Let’s all come together for a shared purge and awakening to find some hope and humour in this desperate existence we’ve grown to consider normal.
Praise for THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT:
Deeply sad… this performance is a scream for help, and it sounds beautiful. ★★★★★ –Independent
★★★★★ – Three Weeks
★★★★★ – Theatre Weekly
★★★★★ – Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
★★★★★ – Theatre Reviews Design
★★★★★ – Londonist
Notes to Editors
Title YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
Dates Tuesday 14th – Sunday 19th March 2023
Tuesday – Friday, 9.25pm
Saturday, 8.55pm
Sunday, 3.10pm & 8.55pm
Social Media @AdamScottRowley @VAULTFestival
#YOUAREGOINGTODIE #YAGTD
https://www.adamscottrowley.com/
Box Office Tickets are available from https://vaultfestival.com/events/you-are-going-to-die/
Creator and Performer Adam Scott-Rowley
Co-creators Tom Morley and Joseph Prowen
Lighting Design Matt Cater
Adam Scott-Rowley
Adam trained at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He is an actor, creator, performance practitioner and director. He is the creator and performer behind the multi-award winning and internationally touring show THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT. Adam’s creative focus is to kindle compassion in the most unlikely of places. He practises this by defying traditional theatrical norms and creating confrontational, unsettling, utterly ruthless form defying high-intensity art. As a practitioner, Adam works at The Danish National School of Performing Arts where he teaches and directs his theatre and performance methodology; ‘The Sensitised Actor’. He has also taught at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, ArtsEd, and the National Youth Theatre. Adam is fascinated by the interplay of mindfulness, creativity, Buddhist psychology, and performance. He utilises these elements in all aspects of his work.
Adam is a qualified secular mindfulness practitioner and is authorised to teach mindfulness by the Mindfulness Association; having completed their Mindfulness, Compassion, Insight, and 2-year teacher training pathway. His teaching adheres to all aspects of the UK Good Practice Guidelines, and he holds a Postgraduate Degree in the Studies of Mindfulness from the University of Aberdeen.
Adam is currently co-creating a one-man show with British theatre director, Ned Bennett (Equus, UK Tour; An Octoroon, National Theatre) for production in 2023.
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