EXXY

Dan Daw returns to the Festival with his bold and triumphant dance-theatre work

How do you continue to value yourself when society doesn’t value you? EXXY (Australian slang for, ‘that’s expensive, mate’) takes us back to where queer, disabled artist Dan Daw began – working class, with very little.

Dan returns to the Festival after last year’s The Dan Daw Show, this time joined by three extraordinary performers who move like him. Together, they conjure up the tantalising possibility of blending in after a lifetime of standing out. With raw honesty and scorching stagecraft, they ask what it costs to stay at the top of your game when you’ve always been made to feel on the outside.  

Visually provocative and threaded with humour, EXXY refuses to offer easy answers. Instead, it invites us into the contradictions Dan Daw embodies: bold yet insecure, triumphant yet uncertain, longing for community, yet determined to be one of a kind. 

Before each performance there will be an Access Drop-In session. Find out more.

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Included in your ticket is an afterparty across all floors of the newly refurbished King's Theatre – dance and mingle with the company in a joyful and inclusive party atmosphere. 

0 Stars

a sensorily impactful, visually impressive piece of work

Everything Theatre 


Supported by Sir Ewan and Lady Brown

Programme

Performed in English with creative captions 

Cast & Credits

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  • Dan Daw Creative Projects
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  • Co-commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Battersea Arts Centre, Transform, Take Me Somewhere, and Tramway for the New Dimensions commission. Additionally co-commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival, Fabric, Kampnagel, Sadlers Wells, SICK! Festival and Les Halles. 

    An Unlimited International Strategic Commission made possible thanks to funding from the British Council.

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