b'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'