She Goat

Encompassing experimental live music, gender-twisting visuals, and gothic storytelling, this new work, previewing in its final stages of development, is an exploration of ‘the Doppelgänger’ devised and performed by a pair of real life doppelgängers. Eugénie Pastor and Shamira Turner are both associate artists of award- winning Little Bulb Theatre. This is their first collaboration as a duo.

DoppelDänger is a theatrical live music gig. We have been composing original music and developing unlikely cover songs – melding synth-pop, electronic textures and baroque harpsichord to create an uncanny and idiosyncratic musical atmosphere. We have drawn musical inspiration from sources as varied as: 90s girls bands pop, summer anthems, Jean-Baptiste Rameau’s harpsichord compositions, electronic music, alt-folk, Franz Schubert, and the unlikely combination of instruments: electric bass guitar, tenor recorder, autoharp, second-hand 90s keyboard, live MIDI controller and our voices.

We have collaborated with an exciting costume maker to create a visual aesthetic that encompasses 1630s European male fashion, 1930s wrestling and retro-futurism. These costumes enable fluidity in how we ‘perform’ gender on stage, and question expected representations of femalehood. We have also worked with a video artist to develop alternative music video pieces that appear throughout the show and that run parallel to the action on stage, further questioning effects of doubling and multiplication.