ABUNDANCE
ABUNDANCE
A fabulous fight against productive use of time.
Performed on 11 May 2024 at The Golden Goose Theatre, London.

aUDIENCES SAID:
“HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE”
“FACED WITH SO MUCH IN A GOOD WAY”
”PURPOSE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT RATHER THAN MEANING MAKING, IT WAS AN ACCULMULATION OF PRESENCE.”
ABUNDANCE is a sequence formed of ten tasks featuring ring girls, a doorbell, and a chance to bring a piece of the performance home. All the tasks are useless contests. Can the ring girls handle it? Or is it too much?
The competitions have no finality and the parameters set by Et al. are ridiculous. They hope to invite reflection and reaction on how one spends one's time. ABUNDANCE explores ideas of being too much, fills the stage with waste, and relies on community. This includes building a city out of packaging and then destroying it for fun. The tasks and responsibilities of ABUNDANCE are distributed between the performers and with the audience. In ABUNDANCE the audience can knock for a coffee, and/or ring for a polaroid, which alters the performance and raises money for Bipolar UK LTD through GoFundMe.
In ABUNDANCE each performer embodies a ring girl. The ring girl has been excluded from the heteronormative boxing competition but in ABUNDANCE she creates and participates in her own competition together with other ring girls. They support each other in the fight against productive use of time. They luxuriate in playful, dramatic, and attention seeking acts of folding packaging, ringing a bell, and voguing. The ring girls are so obsessed with each other that they want to spend infinite hours performing together in a confined space. This communal pleasure underpins the work and is shared with the audience.
ABUNDANCE premiered on 11th May 2024 as a 5-hour durational performance at Golden Goose Theatre in London. Photography by Chiayen 'Katie' Yeh.