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October 29, 2004

BSL performance offer - BUY 1 GET 1 FREE! Watch the Spider at OVAL HOUSE THEATRE

From: Oval House - Oct 29, 2004

STOP PRESS BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE - 2FOR1 DEAL
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Independent Old Ladies present

Watch the Spider
Written and performed by Andrew McLay
Directed by Philip Osment

Oval House Theatre Downstairs
52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11
3rd-13th November Weds - Sat 7:45 pm (No performance Thursday 4th November)
BSL interpreted performance on Saturday 6th November
Tickets £10 / £5 concessions
020 7582 7680 www.ovalhouse.com
flat ground-floor disabled access / induction loop


Mike is a man who enjoys chatting up women and having sex. Then he breaks his back.


BSL TICKET DEAL
Buy a ticket to see the BSL performance of Watch the Spider on Saturday 6th November and bring a friend for FREE: phone/email the box office on 020 7582 7680 / bookings@ovalhouse.com and quote 'internet offer'

Mike is a man who exists for dehumanising and often violent sexual encounters - in fact, for Mike, to be a man you have to sleep with women. So when Mike's spine is severed in a brutal stabbing his whole identity is destroyed. How can he remain a man when his impotence won't allow him to do what a man should be able to do?

Does being a man really mean being governed by your dick?

WATCH THE SPIDER is the psychological and emotional journey of a man coping with a spinal injury that leaves him paralysed, incontinent and impotent.

Writer, dancer and performer Andrew McLay draws on his own experiences as a man whose acquired disability has profoundly changed his attitude to life, to his identity as a man and to other disabled people.