Niplash

About the show

A dance theatre solo conceived, laboured, and birthed by Karla Shacklock.
Developed on Complicité’s Mudlarks International Residency.
Liberation via lactivism! Both healing balm and urgent battle cry, Niplash dives into the societal pressures, insane mixed messaging, and unconditional love surrounding infant feeding*. Expect to see milk, tears, and confetti.
Karla shares her experience of feeding three children and weaves into the show stories and feeding paraphernalia kindly donated by dozens of m/others across the country. Niplash is for the mum who was spat at for bottle feeding her baby in the street, the mum told to put her tits away in a café, the mum scorned for feeding a baby with different skin colour to her own, the mum who only dare pump for her baby with the curtains closed at home.
For all the m/others. For all of us.

Niplash is a show that explores how we feed our children, this includes breast, chest, and formula milk feeding. The show does not place one form of feeding above another and seeks to acknowledge the myriad of experiences and complex journeys.