This Play is a Dildo at The Pleasance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THIS PLAY IS A DILDO

Theatre for people who’ve been fingered by capitalism.

Pleasance Theatre, London 22 and 23 May 2025 at 20:45 Part of Futures Festival Week 3: The Future Is LIVE

Tickets available at pleasance.co.uk/event/play-dildo

What happens when the archive forgets you ever existed? This Play Is a Dildo sets out to find out, and to find what was lost.

Follow a parent-for-hire (nanny) and a partner-for-hire (sex worker) on a sweaty, messy, joyous quest for lost queer and sex worker stories, for chosen family, and for a future worth fighting for. Part confessional, part excavation, part party, this bold new work refuses to sit still and refuses to be forgotten.

This Play Is a Dildo is an experimental, multimedia, and interactive theatre piece that plunges into consent, intimate labour, and the histories that institutions have chosen not to preserve. It asks whose stories get to be remembered, who gets to tell them, and what we owe to the people who came before us in the margins.

The piece made its world premiere at Underbelly Soho Scratch Night in January 2025, before a work in progress run at Theatre Deli as part of Shift + Space in March. Now it arrives at The Pleasance for its final WIP outing, sharper, stranger, and more itself than ever.

Created by Abrah Ophelia Katzman and Sango Tajima Produced by Courtney Neary Starring Abrah Ophelia Katzman With voiceover from Kazeem Tosin Amore and Maria Teresa Creasey

This Play Is a Dildo appears as part of Futures Festival Week 3: The Future Is LIVE, presented by Jonathon Oldfield and Lorna Rose-Treen at the Pleasance Theatre, London.

Performances: Thursday 22 May and Friday 23 May 2025 at 20:45

This performance contains nudity, audience interaction, discussions of violence and sex, latex, and is NOT suitable for vegans.

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