• Choreographed and devised by Kay Armstrong
  In collaboration with..
• dramaturg Nikki Heywood
• designer Imogen Ross
• composer Gary Bradbury
• lighting designer Simon Wise
• Produced by One Extra

A coffin… a dirt overcoat... an earthy embrace... an exploration of the evil that dwells beneath the innocuous, the trusted and the innocent...

Poisoning is a female domain. It is veiled and mysterious - hard to hold.

Kay Armstrong's new solo work, the NARROW HOUSE, is a mediation of all that is evil in the familiar. In a combination of movement and text, it explores the secret domain of the female poisoner, inspired by an account of a serial murderess in the 1950s who killed her victims (often her husbands) with cups of poisoned tea.

Working with designer Imogen Ross, Kay will create a dark, veiled world where images shift, suspend, replicate and disappear.

She cajoles… she bakes…she offers tea and sympathy…. But can we really trust those who feed us?

Was presented at Performance Space
10th - 21st March 2004