Action Hero

A male photographer is taking a photograph of a female celebrity. She wants to be reinvented. She wants to be For Real.

Wrecking Ball is about consent, power, authorship and putting words in other people’s mouths. It’s about the seductive power of make-believe. In this funny, surreal and unsettling new play for 2 performers and an audience, Action Hero ask who’s really in control and how subtle abuses of power shape our relationships – with art, language and with each other.

Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse, based in Bristol, create performances together under the name Action Hero. For the past decade, they have toured together to more than twenty countries across 5 continents to critical and popular acclaim.