Ill Behaviour is a hyper-embodied, bioacoustic performance that listens inward to the messy, private, and often uncomfortable sounds of the (ill) body.
Using contact microphones, extended vocal techniques, and movement, the performers create a transmuting soundscape live from the sounds of breath, pulse, crepitus, and touch. It is visceral yet tenderly grotesque, folding the audience into a relationally charged space of listening, care, and rupture. The audience is invited to confront their own sonic interior; to lean into tenderness, unease, and curiosity.
Intimate yet confrontational, the work explores tenderness, horror, and care asking: What does it sound like to be alive? What does it mean to hear yourself, and let someone else listen in?
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Powerful, arresting and profoundly moving... a hypnotically unsettling performance.”
— British Theatre Guide ✯✯✯✯ (UK)
“It was such a tender celebration of the body and its discontents and frailties. Amidst all the startling and innovative images I kept coming back to a feeling of compassion and hope.”
— Huzir Sulaiman, Checkpoint Theatre Director (SG)
“Took my breath away. Such a stunning work. It may well be the best piece of theatre I have seen.”
— Chenoeh Miller, Little Dove Theatre (AU) Director, PACT (AU) Producer
“Strange, visceral and compelling celebration of human corporeality”
— Scotsman (UK)