1518, France. A woman walks into the street and starts to dance. She is joined by over 200 people all unable to stop. Many of these people dance themselves to death. The exact cause is still unknown.

2018, England. A girl walks onto the beach and starts to dance.

Mass Epidemic Hysteria:

1. Spontaneous, en masse development of physical and/or emotional symptoms among a group of people;

2. A socially contagious frenzy of behaviour in a group as a reaction to an event.

Award-winning physical/visual theatre company The Outbound Project explore the unexplained phenomenon of mass epidemic hysteria in this powerful, visceral, new piece of work.