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From the legendary US performance artist Ron Athey and operatic soprano/musicologist Juliana Snapper comes a highly original new work, The Judas Cradle. In the past we've seen Athey confronting the stigma and iconography of HIV/AIDS, public sex, self-harm, incest and suicide with physically and emotionally confrontational productions including 'Deliverance' and 'Joyce . Now in The Judas Cradle he and Snapper perform an operatic drama using both body and voice that explores the history of torture and personal suffering: from the choreographed 'pornography' of Abu Ghraib, the autos de fe of the Spanish Inquisition, and finally into the melancholic s realm; making an extraordinary spectacle from the politics of torture and release. Warning: The Judas Cradle contains nudity and scenes and depictions of torture which may be offensive to some people. Strictly over 18 s only. The Judas Cradle website.

Cast/Performers

Ron Athey, Julianna Snapper