“…It’s kind of poetic actually. The fission process is really a microcosm for the nuclear apocalypse. We fall apart.”
(In)Jeopardy
Solo Show | 60 min
One heavily intoxicated woman irreverently takes down the digital age, space wars, and the impending nuclear apocalypse.
CREATIVES
Writer-Performer | Edie Deffebach
Director | Avihud Tidhar
Producer | Mackenzie Berkman
Executive Producer | Judy Brady
Set Design | Lottie Brockbank
(In)Jeopardy Trailer | Dir/Edited by Nima Shahmalekpur
ABOUT
The solo show Jeopardy had its premier at the Edinburgh Fringe (theSpaceUK Surgeons Hall, 2017). It was selected for a limited run transfer at the Tristan Bate Theatre, Soho London, under the re-title (In)Jeopardy.
(In)Jeopardy explores the dangers of media overdose in a politically turbulent era to ask how does this over-consumption shape our understanding of the state of the world? And our place within it?
The performer invites the audience to take a narcissistic dive into the current horrors of our time & those just on the horizon… Retreat from the ‘material world’, bunker down with your creature comforts and live vicariously in a safe, isolated space to watch the world burn.
AUDIENCE RECEPTION
Massive Highlight of the @edfringe for me was the #onewomanshow @JeprdyEdFringe - incredibly intelligent theatre and brilliant acting! - Ellie Mason (@msn_brthz) August 16, 2017
@edfringe gotta see @JeprdyEdFringe intense, raw, truthful...Edie brilliantly captures the American nightmare and our ignored human crisis - Akiko m saito (@Akikomsaito3) August 4, 2017
WRITER’S STATEMENT
(In)Jeopardy came out the deepest, darkest, depths of winter and as a self-medication to process the tumultuous events of 2016.
What emerged was a full length play - blending semi auto-biographical musings of past highs and lows with sensationalising of real world events - that portrays the psychological spiralling of a woman who voluntarily traps herself in a flat, sardonically waiting for doomsday to come.
In a fast paced, technologically advanced and politically turbulent world - where normative conventions have all but vanished - the coherent guiding principal of our time seems to be unpredictability. In response, whether for comfort or to feel a sense of belonging & relevance, we turn inwards - towards our own physical and digital spaces. What are the consequences - on an individual and societal level - when the sources that shape our understanding of the world continues to be further removed from the world itself? What kind of (imagined) reality does this create?
Whether exaggerated, biased or false, we cannot ignore the impact of the never-ending consumption of ‘information’ and ‘facts’ - in all its forms and disguises.
(In)Jeopardy attempts to understand the psychological turmoil this disjointed reality has on the naive, fragile, arrogant (summarily, ‘contemporary’) mind.