If I Were Me
It’s spring. The world is in bloom. Phillip tends to his dying potted daffodil.
A copywriter at an advertising agency, fading into the background of a pale office wall, he rearranges words until they work. But life isn’t so easily edited.
Phillip doesn’t want to be Phillip. But what if he never really has been? What if Phillip is yet to become Phillip?
And then there’s Person, who isn’t anybody…yet
ANTLER present If I Were Me, a playfully surreal portrayal of the performance of identity.
If I Were Me was the winner of the Pulse Festival Suitcase Prize 2014, premiering at Pulse Festival 2015 before a run at Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe. It transferred to Bush's RADAR Festival before a week's run at Soho Theatre in 2016.
Press
If I Were Me looks at identity in a society obsessed with the individual. As capitalism extends its grubby fingers further and further, even people are brands now, and Brand Phillip could do with an overhaul.
The satire is right on target.
Stages identity breakdown with vivid strangeness.
Gorgeously bizarre
I can’t wait to see the next version of itself that Antler Theatre transforms into.
Catherine Love, Exeunt
A fascinating concept...Beautifully written and performed The Public Reviews
Spirals of Kafkaesque comedy and despair Exeunt
Bonkers fun for anyone who’s ever wondered who they really are A Younger Theatre
Inventive surreal piece by a smart young company The Stage
A surreal, funny look at a mundane life...Arresting and unforgettable Broadway Baby
Rapid fire choreography, Springsteen’s lyrics, the balls ricocheting around the stage... all provide a playful surreal quality that relieves a mightily painful story. A World to Win
Credits
Devised by Antler
Directed by Jasmine Woodcock-Stewart
Performed and devised by
Nasi Voutsas
Daniela Pasquini
Merce Ribot
Daniel Foxsmith
Produced by Hannah Smith
Lighting Design by Seth Rook Williams