Spring 2024
Us Against The World
Premiered at Theatre Royal Plymouth February 2024.
Off Broadway Tour 2025
Audience Feedback, Theatre Royal Plymouth 2024
“I felt the performance in my body. It wasn’t just a cognitive or emotional experience, it was embodied in a way I have rarely felt at the theatre.”
“As close as you can get to perfect emotional eloquence.”
“Powerful, courageous, challenging, empathic and resonant. Delivered with great skill and humour. Required viewing for the human race.”
Us Against The World
Ever been love-struck?
We have.
And it hurt.
This is about what happens behind closed doors when you love a little too much.
It is about the slippery slope between care and abuse, the colossal strength it takes to break free and the potential danger in doing so.
Us Against The World is an absurd and often funny reminder that the greatest betrayal is forgetting yourself.
Expect a riot of intoxicating dance-theatre, a very charming man, a much-loved chicken and a bit too much cake in this poetic portrayal of love gone wrong.
(Based on the lived-experience of domestic abuse survivors).
CONTENT WARNINGS: themes of psychological domestic abuse/violence.
AGE GUIDANCE: 16+
RUNNING TIME: approx. 70 mins
Lead Artist / Rosie Race
Written by (Text and Visual Scenes) Rosie Race
Director / Katie Villa
Devising Performers / Charles Sandford / Rosie Race
Movement Director / Roseanna Anderson
Stage and Costume Design / Sasha Alexander
Lighting Design / Nathan Benjamin
Composer / Lizzy Westcott
Music and Composition / Jonny Race
Additional Sound / Ben Glass
Producer / Naomi Turner
Access Support / Zaid Al- Rikabi + Shaday Bayewuni
Production Photograpy / Alice Carfrae
Support Team / Tally Alexander / Jade Abbot / Simon Hall / Chris Jones
