Excerpt from the performance Blood Show by Ocean Stefan. Two performers are shown in close-up.

Liminalities 2026

Performance

Ocean Stefan

Blood Show

Tickets:

18 Euro (disc. 9 Euro, [k]-card 9 Euro)

Info

Recommended for ages 16 and up. Triggers/sensory stimuli: Large amounts of fake blood, possibly splatters in the first/second row (washable), repeated depictions of physical violence, loud fighting noises, screams, sudden loud noises, approx. 2 minutes of darkness at the end.

Dates

Thursday

4/23/26

7:30 PM

60 Min.

Tickets

Friday

4/24/26

8:30 PM

60 Min.

Tickets

Three figures, 75 litres of fake blood, an endless fight: BLOOD SHOW howls its call to turn the inside out and resist a violent gaze. Two people are trapped in a room, locked in a loop of repetition, exhaustion and violence. A ghost orchestrates a bare-knuckle fight in which bodies are strangled, thrown and rearranged again and again. What begins as precise brutality tips into the grotesque and comic, until inside and outside collapse. Fake blood becomes material resistance against the desire to read bodies clearly. Blood Show is about the ghosts we carry – a trans* celebration of destruction and rebirth.

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With: Ocean Stefan

Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre (UK), Chapter Arts Centre (UK), Colchester Arts Centre (UK) Coproduction Frascati Producties (NL) Supported by Ammodo (NL) Additional support South House (UK) Originally commissioned by Cambridge Junction (Stobbs New Ideas Fund) (UK) & Old Diorama Arts Centre (UK) With support from LIFT (UK) & Arts Council England

Created by Ocean Stefan with Craig Hambling and Tim Bromage Performed by Ocean Stefan, Tim Bromage and Billy Bilham Fight Choreography Craig Hambling Music Composition and Arrangements Tim Bromage Design Naomi Kuyck-Cohen and Joshua Gadsby Producer & Production Management Laura Betty Haynes Technical Stage Manager Enrico Aurigemma Stage Manager Weronika Dwornik Assistant Stage Manager Bertie Hodd Blood Development Bloody Stuff Ltd Additional Costume Fabrication Carmen Hanna Make-up Consultant House of Bendy Sound Design Support AJ Turner and Nik Rawlings Voice Support Andrea Lewis Dramaturgy Support Gemma Paintin

Original songs ‘Devil of Wythville‘ & ‘Richmond Park‘ copyright Tim Bromage 2019

The Hamburg performances are being staged as part of "Zeit für Welttheater" (Time for World Theater) in cooperation with the ZEIT Stiftung Bucerius foundation.

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Blood Show

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