Based on a book of poetry by the Scottish psychiatrist R.D Laing, the performance explores the "knots, tangles, fankles, impasses, disjunctions, whirligogs, binds" that can arise in relationships. Laing's poems take Jack and Jill as their focus, but perhaps the patterns that emerge between the characters are strangely familiar to us all.
The design takes inspiration from the diagrams used to illustrate transactional analysis in ‘Games People Play’ by psychiatrist Dr. Eric Berne.
Set and Costume Design: Emma Wagstaff
Apapted and Directed by: Emma Wagstaff
Performers: Richard McCarthy, Lila Dowie, Aly Fraser
Musician and composer: Callum Good
Photographs by Mark Wilkinson and Emma Wagstaff
