This summer we are thrilled to be hosting Marisa Carnesky as an Artist in Residence.

Marisa Carnesky is an artist, show-woman and practitioner-researcher whose past work includes Jewess Tattooess, a solo performance exploring cultural identity and the body and Carnesky’s Ghost Train (2004-2014), a large scale arthouse touring ghost train ride that became resident on Blackpool’s Golden mile for five years. The company are interested in combining spectacular forms from magic to fairground with political and personal stories. Creating highly accessible provocative shows, the work is rooted in subverting popular culture to promote new cultural and political discourses

Marisa and her team are here creating Dr Carnesky’s The Incredible Bleeding Woman, which is also co-commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. Putting the magic back into menstruation, the piece reinvents menstrual rituals for a new era, drawing on the hidden power of a forgotten matriarchal past. Delivered with tongue in cheek reverence, this newly evolved version of the show embodies a live art/cabaret crossover – mutating between a bizarre anthropology lecture to a magic stage show, to a feminist, activist ritual featuring an extraordinary cast. You can see the The Incredible Bleeding Woman on our stage on 1 & 2 November as part of our Autumn programme.