Terrifying Women V: Gutted
Omnibus Theatre, 1-3 November 2024

3 plays united on a theme of body horror
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After hugely successful runs in 2021, 2022, 2023 and earlier this year at Cambridge Junction, Terrifying Women are back for the fifth instalment in our horror series. And this time, we’re exploring all things body horror.
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Expect tales of cracking bones, gushing blood, infestation, distortion and destruction of the human body …and cheese.
Featuring:
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DICE WOMAN by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
She’s in her forties and everything seems to be careering out of control. Her body no longer feels like her own and the impact on the rest of her life was getting worse. Desperate for direction she reads a book about a psychoanalyst who started living his life by the roll of a dice and she decided to try it. She could never have imagined the paths it would take her down and how her body would start to respond to the decisions she was about to make…
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SAY CHEESE by Sampira
Ferton Hill and its residents’ lives are changed when their annual cheese wheel race draws in massive attention after becoming a viral sensation. As the council and outsiders try to capitalise on new found fame, disaster strikes and the town rebuilds itself with the only surefire marketing that seems to work - secrecy. It never last long though, does it? A year after the Ferton cheese disaster, a tour guide reveals for the first time what happened. She should know, she was there. Sort of.​
FOREIGN BODY by Abi Zakarian
Something’s stuck inside her. She can feel it; pulsing, throbbing, growing.
It’s raging against her skin, tightening around her organs, moving through her veins.
Years she’s felt it; but she knew to push it down, ignore it, supress it.
Keep it at bay.
Because it mustn’t be there. It shouldn’t be there.
Or should it?
A short horror unpicking what it is to be regarded as a little bit other. Especially when no one understands what the other bit is.​​
Credits
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Writers: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Sampira and Abi Zakarian
Director: Georgia Harris
Performers: Aoife Smyth, Susannah Van Der Berg and Jessie Bedrossian
Producer: María Inés Olmedo
Stage Manager: Roni Neale​​​​​​​
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