Still Life - An Audience With Henrietta Moraes

Watch, listen and draw the hedonistic model and muse to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

Henrietta Moraes itinerant and rackety life was sustained by the tolerance of friends, oiled by alcohol and fuelled by an astonishing variety of drugs.

In this award-winning play, Sue MacLaine captures Moraes’ characteristic wit and candour, regaling her life as a hazy poem and recreating poses from her illustrious career.

As the performance progresses the line between subject and object, artist and model, public and private, blurs. Through drawing and listening, the audience engages in seeing beyond the naked female form to the woman within.

'It changes the nature of looking, and is like a reclamation of sorts... the meaning of Still Life is discovered not in the words but simply in letting the hand do what the eye sees. Interesting stuff' (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian).

Drawing materials provided or bring your own.

Warning. Contains nudity - suitable for ages 16+ years only.