In a holding room, participants wait. A pageant is about to begin. No call time, perpetual purgatory.
Blending the myth of Orpheus with the Government Department of Work and Pensions, TOM is a vertigo-inducing pop-culture collision of working class and queer expression. With original live music and dance, TOM oscillates between hyper-speed pop, ambient waves, and auto-tune vocals. A boundary-pushing queer thriller, TOM is dripping in BULLYACHE’s signature brand of genre-bending artistry. Music, dance, visual art, and costumes are glue-gunned together in fragile harmonies.
BULLYACHE and cast burst into song, they fight, f***, live, laugh, and love… desperately deconstructing the heavy price of being in a world that demands too much.
Cast: BULLYACHE with Belén Laroux, Ed Mitchell, James Olivo, Lewis Walker & Yen Ching-Lin
Co-directors: Jacob Samuel & Courtney Tylor Deyn
Assistant Choreographer: Scilla Rajalin
Rehearsal Director: Previously Scilla Rajalin, currently Oscar Li
Lighting Designer: Laurie Loads
Set Designer: Alan Scott
Producer: Valentina Vela for Artsadmin
TOM was originally produced by Fraser Buchanan
Commissioned by The Yard Theatre
Supported by Arts Council England, Sound and Music, Britten Pears, Genesis Foundation, PRS, Fabric and The Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement
Developed with support from Artsadmin LAB
Laurie Loads Lighting Design 