The gloriously eccentric Rachel Mars will be with us in October with her fascinating show, Our Carnal Hearts. It explores the deepest, ugliest emotions and parts of us we rarely show but are still very much present. The production is a raucous chorus of original music that uses the space to explore these deeper parts of the human condition.

Mars has consistently sold out across the UK and the US with her previous shows and this one has proven to be no different. She is currently impressing audiences at the annual Edinburgh Festival gaining some fantastic reviews from The Stage and Lyn Gardner at The Guardian.

Mars doesn’t hide away from the more taboo subjects, she nurtures and exposes them to show that we are all similar. Our Carnal Hearts is about jealously and the power of such destructive emotions when we witness someone else’s success. Mars describes her show as a place to whoop at our own fragility and delight against our better nature. A toast to our competitive spirits and a rumbling dance for the ugly gutter-tramping parts of our soul.

Previous shows have followed this pattern with performances surrounding love letters and tinder, communal contentment and the power of Margaret Thatcher’s speeches when mixed together with female 80’s pop music.

On her website, Mars says of Our Carnal Hearts, “I’ve been obsessed with the state of envy across the personal and the political for the past few years. It remains a very shameful taboo emotion…The show is a passionate act of exorcism, reimagining envy aside from the humiliation and guilt that it has been imbued with by religion, and the contortions through which politicians mangle envy to serve agendas of wealth accumulation.”

We are looking forward to having Rachel with us October 21 at 8pm.

Have a look at her wonderful reviews from Edinburgh and decide for yourself…

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/aug/19/our-carnal-hearts-review-rachel-mars

4 Stars from Lyn Gardner

https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2017/carnal-hearts-review-summerhall-edinburgh/

4 Stars from Natasha Tripney