Blizzard
A Soho Theatre, in association with Shared Experience, production
By Emily Woof
A Soho Theatre, in association with Shared Experience, production
By Emily Woof
A scurrilous and intimate journey into love, identity and the animal in all of us…
A woman’s brain-scientist husband falls ill just as he is due to give the keynote lecture at a Swiss conference. She reluctantly agrees to give the lecture on his behalf. But when she arrives in Switzerland, her life starts to unravel.
A comic, philosophical adventure asks what is the self, what is thinking, what is the body? And in a godless universe, how do we connect with this thing called the soul?
Emily Woof’s landmark solo shows Sex III and Revolver won back to back Edinburgh Fringe Firsts and were performed at Royal Court Theatre over twenty years ago.
Now she is back with an intimate epic, a surreal and hilarious shaggy-dog story, about philosophy and neuroscience, dance and animals, love and the soul, which asks the question: how should we really live in body and mind?
Dottie
Writer
Director & Dramaturg
Sound Designer & Composer
Set & Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Video Designer
Dramaturg
Movement Director
Assistant Director
Associate Producer
Emily Woof
Emily Woof
Hamish McColl
Theo Foley
Ellie Wintour
Andrew Croft
David Callanan
Wes Williams
Sian Williams
Sam Woof
Mischa Alexander
Soho Theatre, London
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 25 May
Box Office: 0330 333 5961
59e59 Theaters, New York
12 - 30 June
Box Office: 646-892-7999
★★★★
"Blizzard, for me, is what theatre does best. It is strange and free but within the confines of a brilliantly designed story world"
Spy In The Stalls
★★★★
"Woof is a masterly storyteller whose character is charming to watch as she navigates unfamiliar situations"
The Stage
★★★★
"Wacky, witty and heart-warming, Blizzard is a wonderfully bizarre hour-long foray into how we understand the world"
Review Hub
★★★★
"Woof knows exactly how to hold your attention, and achieve a comedy of suppressed distress."
The Telegraph
★★★★
"Exquisitely written and delivered monodrama"
The Scotsman
★★★★
"Her comic timing and ability to deliver the laugh out loud hammer blow is perfect"
All That Dazzles
"It all makes for a wild ride, to be sure, but thanks to the personable Emily Woof and the easygoing direction by Hamish McColl, it's all quite compelling."
Talkin' Broadway