YOU ARE GOING TO DIE

Following sold out runs at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe and the VAULT Festival, new performance work YOU ARE GOING TO DIE comes to Southwark Playhouse Borough for a limited run. Performed entirely naked, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE is a nail-biting descent into existential anxiety as humanity stares down the proverbial toilet.

At once comic, bleak and beautiful, Scott-Rowley, the creator of the 2017 sixteen ★★★★★ awarded and internationally touring show THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT evokes a world full of playful anarchic energy and mischievous bubbling humour, as his fantastical personas navigate the dark edges of existence and despair.

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YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, a surreal meditation on annihilation, rests on the knife edge between physical theatre and performance art. It offers a shared purge and illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche, revealing compassion and humour in the most unlikely of places.

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★★★★★ 

"Scott-Rowley’s incredible physical performance is utterly captivating, holding the audience with every pained gesture and moment of levity.” - British Theatre Guide

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★★★★★ 

"The overall effect is both monstrous and magical. Magical because, here, dying is framed, not as a process of atrophy, but rather as an act of accretion or accumulation: a celebration, a natural gathering of speed and experience, a means of moving towards the end, unafraid.” - The Skinny

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★★★★★ 

“YOU ARE GOING TO DIE is a physical theatre masterpiece. It is entirely absorbing, entertaining, humorous but hitting really poignant spots in every audience member.” - Get the Chance Wales

 

★★★★★

“A crowd-pleasing, brilliantly vulgar spectacle... it serves as a jubilant, much-needed, collective catharsis..” – Fringe Biscuit

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★★★★★

“Takes you places you’d never dream of or dare to step into of your own volition..” – The Theatre Times

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​★★★★★

“Exquisitely absurd physical theatre in a cyclical rhythm, create a world of utter existential dread, which, much like death, there is no escaping.” – The Student

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​★★★★★

“Nobody does character work like Adam Scott-Rowley. He’s the most fascinating, defiant, mind-tingling performance artist you’ll ever see.” – Everything Theatre

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★★★★ 

“Physically astonishing and vocally brilliant 60 minutes hovers between tragedy and farce, dread and hilarity.” - Lyn Gardner for The Stage

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★★★★

“Scott-Rowley is a remarkably talented performer, who feels less like he’s playing these strange creatures than being possessed by them.” - The Scotsman

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★★★★

“An exhortation to embrace life – in all its richness, its strangeness and, yes, its degradations – while we can..” - The Arts Desk

 

★★★★ 

“Adam Scott-Rowley’s characterisation and physicality are a wonder to behold.." – Shy Strange Manic

 

★★★★

“Just incredible performance skills that are second to none.” - Theatre Reviews Design

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Created and Performed by: ADAM SCOTT-ROWLEY

Produced by: THE PRODUCTION EXCHANGE
Co-created with: JOSEPH PROWEN & TOM MORLEY
Lighting Design: MATT CATER

Photography: RYAN BUCHANNAN