Baklâ
Max Percy + Friends
Wed 9th Aug - Sun 27th Aug 2023
Relaxed Performance: 8th & 22nd August 2023
Time: 13:00 ( 60 mins )
Genre: Dance/Physical Theatre/Circus, Performance Art
Age: 18+
Warning: Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Scenes of a sexual nature
Baklâ: noun, Tagalog.
1) homosexual; 2) unable to reproduce; 3) f*ggot
Homonhon Island, 1521. The start of 300 years of Spanish colonial rule, sparking a genocide across the islands now known as the Philippines.
The loss of my ancestral homeland sends ripples through time, emitting a cultural amnesia. But is sex the best cure for a headache? Dishonesty, toxic coping mechanisms and the trials of self-liberation. Looking for a wild and sexy time?
A daring one-person physical theatre show about how intergenerational trauma takes shape in the modern Filipino.""
Keep it Fringe Award Winner 2023
Previous Work:
Untapped Award Winner 2022
The Scotsman Fringe First Winner 2022
The Guardian's Top Pick of the Fringe
The Skinny's Top Pick of the Fringe
The Stage's Top Pick of the Fringe
Baklâ is generously supported by BOLD Theatre, Keep It Fringe Fund, Kingston College and Unity Theatre Trust.
1) homosexual; 2) unable to reproduce; 3) f*ggot
Homonhon Island, 1521. The start of 300 years of Spanish colonial rule, sparking a genocide across the islands now known as the Philippines.
The loss of my ancestral homeland sends ripples through time, emitting a cultural amnesia. But is sex the best cure for a headache? Dishonesty, toxic coping mechanisms and the trials of self-liberation. Looking for a wild and sexy time?
A daring one-person physical theatre show about how intergenerational trauma takes shape in the modern Filipino.""
Keep it Fringe Award Winner 2023
Previous Work:
Untapped Award Winner 2022
The Scotsman Fringe First Winner 2022
The Guardian's Top Pick of the Fringe
The Skinny's Top Pick of the Fringe
The Stage's Top Pick of the Fringe
Baklâ is generously supported by BOLD Theatre, Keep It Fringe Fund, Kingston College and Unity Theatre Trust.
"The show's use of the allegorical veil is a masterstroke, sharpening the focus without blunting the pain." ★★★★ -The Guardian
"It's the kind of work that existed in the late-20th century behind the Iron Curtain, theatre which is about nothing and everything all at once." ★★★★ The Stage
Image: Joe Magowan
Date: 9 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 10 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
CANCELLED
Date: 11 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 12 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 13 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 15 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 16 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 17 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 18 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 19 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Date: 20 August 2023
Time: 1.00pm ( 60 mins)
Full: £15
Relaxed Performance
