Slap and Tickle

Liz Aggiss has been in a dark room decoding a disorientating display of contradictions and interpretations on girls, ladies, women, mothers, pensioners and senior citizens. Unpicking mythologies, platitudes, refrains and old wives tales, this dark and ribald physical commentary considers cultural mores, forays and sexual taboos. SLAP AND TICKLE navigates Liz Aggiss and the audience into a feminist soup; with push and pull, punishment and reward, slap and tickle… all the way home.

SLAP AND TICKLE in three acts, is littered with aural and visual collage; from archive to cover versions, radio nostalgia to contemporary reference with a form that lurches relentlessly from spoken word to expressionism, music hall, costume change and prop manipulation.

Spielman Theatre