Super Duper Close Up

I produced Made In China's theatre show Super Duper Close Up, which premiered in London at The Yard in 2018 and then toured the UK.

We’re all starring in the movie of our life. Selfie after selfie, post after post. It’s exhausting. So take a break. Bask in the glow of the big screen as someone else has a go. See the heroine all dewy-eyed as the camera zooms in. And in. And in.

Get set for a looping, live-filmed ride, through the anxieties of an unsettlingly ordinary woman’s existence. An epic journey to everywhere and nowhere, via a glittering labyrinth of click-bait and across an infinite stream of frozen pouts and desperate smiles.

A tragicomic and hypnotic explosion of film, movement and words, Super Duper Close Up asks what a girl is to do when everything is virtual, and virtually everything is for sale. Are you ready for your close-up?

‘a show with an exterior that glistens and twinkles like a Faberge egg, but its insides are filled with a swirling molten pool of sadness and rage.’ ★★★★ The Stage

Commissioned by Cambridge Junction, The Yard, and Theatre in the Mill. Supported by Arts Council England.

Photo: john hunter at RULER