X: Sunny Drake

Overview

Addiction. It’s a fraught word. Initial thoughts turn to booze and drugs, but in reality addictions reach further afield - carbs, shopping, watching Breaking Bad, facebook, sex. In fact there is an addiction to fit all types.

X is the new performance by Sunny Drake exploring addiction through the world of Caitlin and Jamie, two best friends, alongside Naked and Fancy, two puppets. Drake delves into the quick fixes and obsessions that inhabit our lives and draw us in.

This is a one-man show encompassing a range of different elements including stop-motion animation, puppetry and live performance, allowing the audience various entry points into the work.

Drake has centered the piece in LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex and queer) experiences. This is core to Drake’s work; he seeks to make art that reflects his experience as a queer transgendered person. Alongside this though his theatre is always fun and engaging for the audience, but it should leave them with a few questions and new ideas to ponder.

Following the premiere season of X at Metro Arts the show will take the world by storm when Drake takes the production to North America for the USA National Queer Arts Festival.