She copies. He mimics. They shed. At border control, they strip off her heritage coat with a smile. ‘Don’t you want me, baby?’ But who really gets to cross, to stay, to be accepted, and at what cost?
Suspended in a liminal desert of identity, five conditional citizens navigate the strange rituals of border crossings with satire and sorrow. Framed by the shadows of Brexit and the government’s hostile immigration policies, the performance becomes a timely and provocative response to a world where identity is continually negotiated, stripped back, and reassembled.
Created by Zoo Indigo with an ensemble of performers from migratory contexts, this multidisciplinary piece weaves movement, multilingual spoken word and live music into a politically charged exploration of home and the surreal choreography of borders.
Accessibility
The Conditional Citizen (Don’t You Want Me, Baby?) includes Creative Audio Description, with full audio description performed by the actors and delivered through headsets. Integrated into the artistic style of the production, this approach provides blind and visually impaired audience members with access to key visual elements, helping them to fully engage with the performance.
The Conditional Citizen (Don’t You Want Me, Baby?) is a Captioned Performance, providing greater accessibility for D/deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audience members. Captions display the spoken dialogue, song lyrics, sound effects and off-stage sounds in real time on a screen positioned on or beside the stage.
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