Shaking Hands

‘I am trying to rewire my brain…to unlearn how to love in a fearful way.’ We meet the poet as she grapples with confusion in her body, why it’s not working the way everyone else’s is. The battle between mind and body becomes bloodier as she follows her desires on a search for love, and instead is abused. Through dance and poetry, we see a desire to fill a hole inside that cannot be mended by anyone but herself. Shaking Hands finds joy in queer love and friendships as the poet aims to repair body and mind after trauma.

How do young women navigate the world now? Will following their sexual desires make them feel used and afraid, or exhilarated and alive?

Warnings: Sexual Assault and abuse

WRITTEN BY Eva Kelly

DIRECTION AND STAGE MANAGEMENT BY Eri Farrell

CHOREOGRAPHED BY Tuana Sunar

SOUND AND COSTUME DESIGN BY Rhiannon Shine

SET AND LIGHTING DESIGN BY Jack Kelly

SOUND OPERATED BY Róisín Whelan

PRODUCED BY Lea Bažon

CAST Eva Kelly and Tuana Sunar

RUNNING TIME 60 minutes