the skeleton is white
Available for touring Spring/ Autumn 2025
"Melally has managed to encapsulate an overwhelmingly huge topic into something beautiful, powerful and cool." - Quaere Living
How does a body of colour react when it enters a room full of white people? Our intrinsic DNA mechanisms have wired our body and mind to respond involuntarily in particular environments, triggering the fight or flight mode. Trauma and stress are passed over many generations. Although the world is gradually changing to be more open minded and accommodating, our bodies are still traumatised from the many decades of racial oppression. How do we make our own bodies forget and disregard race? How do we erase the inscribed whiteness of the skeleton?
Creation and performance: Divija Melally
Music: Cristopher Serazzi
Dramaturgy: Vicki Hearne
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With support from Pegasus Theatre and Dancin' Oxford
REviews
Photo: David Fisher
Performances:
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Moving with the times, Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
Resolution, The Place, London
Shift Space, Theatre Deli, London
Voila Europe, The Cockpit, London