Fertile is a new interactive theatre show, fusing digital and live storytelling that was performed at Festival of the Mind 2022.

 

Told through a series of games, meta-theatrics, and digital atmospheres of human anatomy, the show will explore the story of a young man’s experience of infertility, coupled with the life-or-death race of sperm.

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Infertility rates are on the rise in the Western World; meanwhile the debate on reproducing in a climate emergency has amplified. Fertile explores society’s bias towards a narrative of reproduction, the increasingly infertile world and how an individual is impacted when that narrative is not possible. 

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Fertile is about being fertile in an increasingly infertile world. 

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Developed with Professor Allan Pacey, The University of Sheffield & Human Studio.