Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Aerial artist Kate Dunne transfixes and unnerves
Imagine a waiting room. You’re new to the practice, and a nurse hands you a medical declaration form. Except now imagine that the nurse is wearing a leather animal mask and that a deep, warped voice is speaking to you over the intercom: “The doctor will be with you in a moment.”
Around the waiting room, surrounded by strange images, mannequins and fake stuffed legs, the audience looks over its declaration sheet and a list of possible pre-existing health conditions. A woman is rolled past into another room, in the foetal position under a plastic sheet, candles lighting beneath her.
We’re led into the main performance space, where red aerial silks and ropes hang from the ceiling, and a woman begins thrashing around to intense, harsh, overstimulating music. Sláinte takes its audience on an immersive “body horror” journey, incorporating circus, theatre and installation art, to raise questions about sexuality and Ireland’s healthcare system, particularly for women and the working class.
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