IMPERMANENCE Presents... NIPLASH by Karla Shacklock
Part of the NIPLASH Weekender @ The Mount Without
There are events throughout the weekend, for more info visit:
www.impermanence.co.uk/event/niplash

SHOW TIMES:
SATURDAY --- 7.30pm
SUNDAY ----- 1.00pm

A dance theatre solo conceived, laboured and birthed by Karla Shacklock
Developed on Complicité’s Mudlarks International Residency

Highly physical and visual, hilariously raw and heartbreakingly real, Niplash blows open the multifaceted world of infant feeding; from the cultural expectations and taboos, to the lack of support and understanding. Through humour, honesty, and vulnerability, Karla opens a space where our stories are given a voice, and we are powerfully reminded that they matter. That we matter.

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.

*Infant Feeding - 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.

*Niplash contains partial nudity and themes of infant feeding experiences. There is a semi loud bang at the end.