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At the intersection of theatre, dance and visual art installation, Bronx Gothic gives palatable force to the charged relationship between two girls on the verge of adolescence in 1980s outer-borough New York City. Their world emerges through the clandestine and sometimes sex-saturated notes that are passed between them. Orchard Beach, Nathan\u2019s hot dogs and Whitney Houston\u2019s hair are all part of the landscape of Bronx Gothic.\n\nCreated by New-York-based writer, performer and choreographer, Okwui Okpokwasili, in collaboration with director and designer, Peter Born. Bronx Gothic is a partially-true chronicle of one woman\u2019s past, and draws inspiration from both Victorian-era novels and West African griot storytelling. Okpokwasili\u2019s intensely physical solo performance pushes against extremes, reverberating with a potency that threatens to break the body. \n\nBronx Gothic unfolds as a dark and powerful tale of sexual self-discovery and the (brown) body in transformation \u2013 and the humour, love, strangeness, and even terror, that accompany it.\n\nThis Postshow Q&A was recorded on Friday 9th October 2015.\n\nWritten & Performed by Okwui Okpokwasili\nDirector/Scenic & Lighting Designer Peter Born\nOriginal Songs Okwui Okpokwasili\nMusic Peter Born & Okwui Okpokwasili