EAT ME

PREY: You ever eat a woman?

(BEAT)

PREDATOR: Not yet.

Loud dress, no shoes - Prey slips in the rain, every raindrop a tooth. The Man, watching his neighbours from the shadows of his flat, sees breakups, group sex, a dog die and revive, and her - melancholic, solitary. For Predator nothing will ever be the same again.

One night, slipping through the liminal spaces, three nameless people download Tor, leave grandmother’s house and run for their lives.

EAT ME is a luscious, incendiary theatre show about unconventional love, chaos, control and the shifting complexities of power. Inspired by Han Kang’s ferocious domestic thriller, The Vegetarian, Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat, queer horror and Nordic Noir, EAT ME, written by award-winning playwright Luke Sutherland, tells the story of two women who use the dark web to find one another and together commit an act of consensual cannibalism.

Underlined by the creative team's own experiences, EAT ME explores and explodes obsessive love and hunger, and takes a step towards reclaiming our place in the wild.

“★★★★ a vision of excess consumption in a world where lust for sensory pleasure turns cannibalistic.”

— The Guardian

Created by Ester Marsalko, Isy Sharman and Claire Eliza Willoughby

Choreographed by Christine Devaney / Costume Design by Annie Hiner / Directed by Eszter Marsalko / Devised and Performed by Ian Cameron, Isy Sharman and Claire Eliza Willoughby / Lighting Design by Simon Hayes / Production Management by Emma Jones and Sian MacGregor / Text by Luke Sutherland / Sound Design by Matt Collings / Stage Design by Anna Orton / Stage and Technical Management by Craig McNeill

With support from Creative Scotland, Figurteateret i Nordland, Macrobert Arts Centre manipulate and Perth Theatre, EAT ME draws upon feminist short story collections, dark romance, true crime and the twisted legacy of fairy tales to tell a story of heartbreak, power, and betrayal.

With script by award-winning writer Luke Sutherland (VENUS AS A BOY) and choreography by internationally acclaimed Christine Devaney, EAT ME is a dazzling love story for the contemporary age.

EAT ME has been made in association with Curious Seed and is also available as an arthouse live performance film, made by Rob Willoughby. The film was officially selected for the Prague International Film Festival and Kiez Berlin Film Festival where it won Best Experimental Film and an Honourable Mention respectively.