Anastasia Louka
Art Department / Stage Design
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again - Alice Burch
The Other Room, 2022. Director Nerida Bradley, Set & Costume Design Anastasia Louka, Lighting Design Elanor Higgins, Sound Design Melody Morselshop, Assistant Director Kallum Weyman, Cast Catriona James, Danielle Fahiya, Benjamin McCann, Joni Ayton-Kent
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“I have cut my eyelashes off. I have covered myself in coal and mud. I have bandaged my body up and made myself a collection of straight edges. Fortify. I have rubbed iodine, bleach and the gut of a rabbit into my skin until it began to burn. I have nearly emptied my body of its organs. I stopped eating for one year and three days, my body a bouquet of shell bone. I have eaten only animal fat until I rolled, bubbled and whaled and came quite close to popping. Fortify. Make my edges clear. Where I begin and air stops is my motherland. No? I have sat under sun lamps until my skin crackled, spat and blistered. I have pulled my hair out with my fingers and my teeth out with pliers. I have wrapped myself in clingfilm, foil, clothes, make-up and barbed wire.
No fortification strong enough.
Nothing to stop them wanting to come in.”
