GORE. GIRLS. GLITTER.
A multimedia burlesque fantasia about Shelley Duvall.
Horny for horror? Freaky for feminism?
Fancy a lap dance from Jack Nicholson?
When directing The Shining, Stanley Kubrick reportedly made Shelley Duvall film one scene 127 times. It took 3 weeks. By the end of it, her hands were scraped raw & her voice was hoarse. In the scene as captured on film, she’s a puddle of snot, a total wreck – as Stephen King said at the time, a “screaming dishrag."
Should we be watching her? Is this acting or just a woman being genuinely tortured?
GASH is reframing the horror movie genre to uncover whether it is truly as misogynistic as we fear or instead a celebration of the craft of female hysteria.
Come join our ooey gooey fleshy blobby spectacular of bodily fluids!
“This balletic bloodbath of a play is, at times, bizarre, and always brilliant. Using a series of burlesque and drag numbers connected by an overarching narrative, Shelley is whip smart, visceral, pointed, and absolutely mad.”
— Adventures in Theatreland ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gash Theatre Needs Some Space, Gash’s first live show, is a multi-media, sci-fi, referential performance piece deconstructing sexuality, gender, and body image through the lens of humanity's obsession with outer space.
Board Starship Gash for a voyage of interstellar sex-ploits! Do aliens have body image issues too? Is there a galaxy far-far-away enough from your ex? What’s really at the centre of a blackhole? (Spoiler alert: it’s Demi Lovato).
Gash Theatre tackles inter-dimensional bodies and sexualities, speeding between astronaut striptease, himbo space-drag worthy of Flash Gordon himself, and some questionable theories about tentacle porn.
Houston, let's get NASA-ty.
This piece premiered with Assembly Festival at Edinburgh Fringe 2022. The creative team also included Jack D’Arcy (Composer/Sound Designer), Rachel Sophie Isaacs Schwartz (Costumes/Props Designer), Paul Hernaes Barnes (Narration Voice Actor), Josie Shipp (Lighting Designer), and Adeeb Waren (Videographer).
“Queens of Kitsch, @GashTheatre create a pop culture-infused sci-fi epic with cabaret flair. With trademark irreverence, the duo dissect our society’s alienating body & sex standards via a multimodal, luridly sensual, delectably vulgar adventure.”
— FringeBiscuit ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“To attempt to explain or describe Maddie Flint and Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn’s multi-media ode to sci-fi and sexuality feels almost wrong. No piece of writing could convey the irreverent, referential, meme-laced madness that unfolds along this space voyage. Genders will be bent, you will have (soft) things thrown at you, you might see a *gasp* titty.”
— The Wee Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gash Theatre Gets Ghosted, Gash’s second show, is an immersive theatrical film set in an apartment that’s been possessed - Poltergeist style - by the ghost of pop cultural masculinities. The GASH gals find themselves stuck, forced to encounter chit-chatting desk lamps, harmonizing closet drawers, a TV that plays nothing but rom-coms, a werewolf singing classic rock, and waaaay too many Rick and Morty references (one). In this macho macho world, they grapple with romance, bisexuality, their fears of men, and how they’ll connect with other people once they finally escape.
This piece premiered with Camden People’s Theatre in April 2021, streamed with The Tank (NYC) in May 2021, and streamed through Assembly Festival at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2021. It was supported by Theatre Deli, Menier Lounge, Southwark Square, Daredevil Toys, and Creative Scotland. The creative team also included Sam Kaseta (Composer/Sound Designer), Kristina Pringle (Videographer), Amy Daniels (Production Manager), Amy Mawer (Stage Manager/Puppetry Master), and Alice Bour (Associate Producer).
Selected for Broadway World UK’s Best of 2021
“I can’t recommend this delightfully weird and unique production enough.”
— Broadway World ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“When the noise stops, they talk about how these images of violence and vulnerability have worked their way into their real-life relationships. That their conversations appear to be voiced by the furniture only adds to the heightened theatricality of an amusing and provocative show.”
— The Scotsman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“A kitschy, thought-provoking meditation on masculinity. Pop culture is the touchstone, medium & conflict in this fun, postmodern gem.”
— FringeBiscuit ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Weird, wonderful, totally not linear but gloriously perceptive”
— London Pub Theatres ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“The ambition and fearlessness displayed makes this compelling, entertaining, and a sign that Gash Theatre has the talent to deliver even more in the near future.”
— Everything Theatre ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“The result of this production is quirky, heart-pounding and intriguing to the audience.”
— West End Best Friend ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Exuberant and incisive […] This is not just theatre transferred onto film, but truly digital theatre which revels in the possibilities of this new hybrid art form.”
— Sitting on the Fourth Wall
“Gash bring together such a rich tapestry of images and suggestions that their shows veer from disturbing to hilarious […] Baffling, inventive, and scary.”
— Lou Reviews
“A heady, chaotic whirlwind of activity […] The Gash girls make their heroic escape, but we can’t help but wonder – isn’t the world they’ve returned to just more of the same horrifying things they’ve experienced? That there, is the true horror of Gash Theatre Gets Ghosted.”
— Bakchormeeboy
Interview with London Theatre 1
Interview with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Gash Theatre Makes A ThirstTrap is the debut project of Gash Theatre, a company I formed with Maddie Flint at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. The piece is a theatrical film set in a house haunted by the ghosts of femininity. Using pop music, film tropes, drag, and burlesque, we explore the complexities of embracing our own sexualities in the current world. How does one make a feminist thirst trap?
This work was made entirely in lockdown, and had the support of live artist Lucy McCormick and Lynne Kendrick, co-founder of Camden People’s Theatre. The creative team also included Clodagh Chapman (creative collaborator) and Andrew Perry (videographer).
"Gash Theatre Makes a ThirstTrap is intriguing, utterly compelling viewing, perfect for the theatre lover who enjoys a challenge […] Ellis-Einhorn’s lip-synced scenes of old classic films are a personal highlight […] Some seriously weird shit indeed.”
— Everything Theatre ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“A dizzying experience of voyeurism that blurs the boundaries between what is seen, what is shown, what is exhibited and what is hijacked. A furiously alive artistic performance.”
— The Big Affiche Blog
Welcome to the house of GASH. We’ve been waiting for you.
This is a thirst trap. A thirst trap.
We’re pop princesses. We’re schoolgirls. We’re punks. We’re toxic, baby. We’re femme fatales who’ll seduce you for your cash. We’re soaring, flying.
A thirst trap. A trap.
We’ve got that super bass. We’re party girls who like to get messy. We’re plastic bags, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again.
A trap. It’s a trap!
We’re bored and needy and angry. And we want a boogie.
Our thirst trap is hungry. Let us eat you up.
Gash Theatre hosted a cabaret - Ghosts of Valentines Past - through Theatre Deli’s online platform on February 12th 2021 to raise funds for our new production, Gash Theatre Gets Ghosted.
Haunted by an ex? Petrified of commitment? Obsessively scrolling through texts from when hooking up with strangers was a thing?
Gash Theatre brings you a spooktacular night full of the most spine-tingling cabaret acts - drag, burlesque, clown, and music that will make you shiver with delight. All to celebrate the most terrifying day of the year: Valentine’s.
Grab your fangs and join us for a hair-raising experience with our scarily hot guest performers:
Cabbage the Clown - Casual Wednesday - Chai - Charlie Wood - Fran Sparklypants - Marlene Peach - Melancholia Blackbile - Mina Van Yeaux - Miss Lolly May - Miss Terri Boxx - Mr. Sam Bam Thankyoumaam - Paul Aleksandr - Risqué
And, of course, GASH
This show is 18+, as it will include nudity, gore, strong language, and sexual references (all the good stuff).
All ticket proceeds will go towards GASH THEATRE GETS GHOSTED, a new digital theatre production premiering this April.
