Trilogy’s naked truths
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It was the runaway hit of last year’s Edinburgh fringe. Now Trilogy – an intoxicating celebration of women, feminism and the power of nudity – is heading south. Maddy Costa talks to the show’s uncompromising creator… The Guardian
Trilogy is at BAC, London SW11 (020-7223 2223), until Saturday. Then touring.
Ask any woman if she is happy with her body, and chances are the answer will be no. But while most women combat that dissatisfaction by dieting or going to the gym, 27-year-old Nic Green went to a startling extreme. She created a three-part, two-hour show that requires her and her fellow performers, three other women and a man, to be naked for much of its duration. And then she invited a bunch more women to strip off alongside them.
Her show, Trilogy, which opens in London this week, was the hit of last year’s Edinburgh fringe – which might seem unsurprising, considering its high quotient of bare breasts and buttocks. But there is nothing sexual about its naked dance sequences: this is a highly politicised, unashamedly feminist piece of theatre that sets out to celebrate not just women’s bodies – of every shape and size – but their minds, achievements and aspirations, too.
Audiences have found it so inspiring that they have stood and undressed for the closing rendition of Blake’s hymn Jerusalem.
