RAT RAT RAT at The Old Operating Theatre Museum

Following the success of our Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, where we received the Outstanding Youth Performance award from the Asian Arts Awards, EggGen returns this June with RAT RAT RAT, a site-specific performance staged inside the Old Operating Theatre Museum, one of Europe’s oldest surviving surgical theatres. Set in a space where, long before anaesthesia, operations were performed in front of live audiences, the work transforms the museum into an unsettling classroom of silent rat-students, obedience, observation, and quiet institutional violence. Drawing from the histories of animal experimentation and the atrocities of Unit 731 during the Second World War, blending puppetry and movement, RAT RAT RAT explores how violence becomes normalised when it is wrapped in systems, routines, and instructions. Rather than focusing on a single act of brutality, the work examines how violence is justified through necessity, rationality, science, discipline, or the so-called “greater good”.