This Is How We Die

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a motor-mouthed collage of spoken word and storytelling. tales of paranoia, young love and ultra-violence from the desk of christopher brett bailey comes a spiralling odyssey of pitch-black humour and nightmarish prose. THIS IS HOW WE DIE is a prime slice of surrealist trash, an Americana death trip and a dizzying exorcism for a world convinced it is dying

Is this actually how we die Driven at disorientingly high speed through the blazing landscape of our own riot-torn hearts, while the radio blares adverts for impossible products conceived in the agonizing heat of capitalisms terminal inferno Christopher Brett Bailey auctions off everything we have and everything we think we know to the lowest bidder, leaving us stripped and spent and blissed out and beaten by language, that treacherous stuff we had thought was our friend. No, there aint no sanity clause: but Id trust Bailey with my life, and if this is how we die, you know, its really not such a bad way to go. Chris Goode

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Really shocks or transforms you - achingly hip and frighteningly savage - an extraordinary experience. * Lyn Gardner, The Guardian *
Blisteringly brilliant - a staggeringly eloquent piece of work. * The Scotsman *
Is this actually how we die Driven at disorientingly high speed through the blazing landscape of our own riot-torn hearts, while the radio blares adverts for impossible products conceived in the agonizing heat of capitalisms terminal inferno Christopher Brett Bailey auctions off everything we have and everything we think we know to the lowest bidder, leaving us stripped and spent and blissed out and beaten by language, that treacherous stuff we had thought was our friend. No, there aint no sanity clause: but Id trust Bailey with my life, and if this is how we die, you know, its really not such a bad way to go. -- Chris Goode
a visceral, world-burning piece a brutal, vital, incredible show. * Total Theatre *

Author Bio

Christopher Brett Bailey is a maker and writer of theatre, author of the award-winning punk-opera The Inconsiderate Aberrations of Billy the Kid. As a performer he has appeared at National Theatre, BBC, BAC, Almeida and in the bowels of the Top Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon Hatch. He is also a composer and performer of music and sound.