About

Oat Cakes and Jam is an anarchic, darkly comic piece inspired by Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves from The Bloody Chamber. Developed over eleven weeks at the OSO, it will blend movement, text, music, and visual design to explore transformation, desire, and rebellion.

Built through a layered, collaborative process, each creative element - from clowning to photography, costume, and lighting - will be developed independently before being woven together into a rich theatrical collage. The process will celebrate chaos, humour, and play, drawing inspiration from radical performance-makers such as In Bed With My Brother and Figs in Wigs.

At its heart, Oat Cakes and Jam will embrace Carter's fairytale world while reimagining it through a contemporary theatrical lens. The result will be a visceral, multimedia gothic fairytale that blurs the boundaries between text, movement, music, and visual design.

This work-in-progress sharing will invite audiences to step into a world where the wild and the human blur, offering a glimpse into the collaborative making of a bold and playful theatrical experiment.