The City for Incurable Women
fish in a dress
Edinburgh
Pleasance Courtyard
Upstairs
13:35
60 mins
From £10.00
30th Jul - 25th Aug
Paris, 1880s. In a psychiatric hospital, female patients performed "hysteria" for the public. The doctors went to extraordinary lengths to prove their theories about the four stages of madness. International theatre-collective, fish in a dress follows the thread of the history of hysteria as the audience becomes complicit in an outrageous tale of medical misogyny. (Warning: hysteria cure not included).
ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES
Relaxed Performance: All performances of The City for Incurable Women will be relaxed.
All relaxed performances at the Pleasance are designed to create a welcoming and inclusive environment. Audience members are free to move around, make noise, and sit wherever feels most comfortable. If you need to leave the space at any point during the show, you're more than welcome to re-enter when you're ready.
This show contains the following content warnings:
Distinctive smells (sage incense and eating of a lemon)
Loud, repetitive, high pitched, unexpected or overlapping sound
Access Tickets
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