Sunday 2 November, 7pm  

Peterborough Museum and Gallery  

Tickets £7.50  / free for people who identify as living with chronic illness, Disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodiverse   

Ages 14+ 

Invited by Metal, multidisciplinary artist Joanna Holland brings her performance Reverie – a dream of autoimmunity to Peterborough.  

A once grand hall in an abandoned manor house – now in a dilapidated state of disrepair. A young woman, a dreamy new friendship, and a curse. An unorthodox relationship, but one which has utterly lifted her from a state of melancholia. 

Suddenly this friendship takes a sinister turn, and she finds herself in a nightmarish scenario – where comfort is replaced by claustrophobia and trust by terror.  

Rule one – never ever share your innermost secrets. 

Rule two – old houses are not to be trusted.  

Entanglements between chronic illness and a repetitive dream inspired Joanna’s auto-fictional tale of love, loss and unpredictability. Reverie is performed as a dreamlike monologue by award-winning actress Louise Kim Salter. Directed by Stéphanie Joalland. 

The performance will be followed by a Q&A with writer Joanna and actress Louise.  

Presented by METAL Peterborough, funded by Arts Council, England. 

This performance is part of The Haunted. Running over the course of a year, The Haunted is a collection of performances, talks, readings, and soundscapes which explore liminal space, dreaming, sick bodies, horror, and the uncanny. Female-led narratives by Disabled and non-Disabled artists share what it’s like to exist in an ever-shifting, ‘in between’ space.  

Content information: Reverie – a dream of autoimmunity features themes of horror, chronic illness, parasomnias, nightmares, visions, pain and death. It has an unnerving and extremely loud soundtrack, with some sudden noises, moments of darkness and flashing lights.  

Tickets are £7.50 or free for people who identify as living with chronic illness, Disabled, D/deaf or neurodiverse 

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Find out more about the project at https://www.hollandsyntax.uk/  

Image Credit: Louise Kim Salter in Reverie © Chloe Page