What Happens When a Deadly Disease Gets a Drag Makeover and Takes Over the Streets of Liverpool?
Cholera Walking Tour is an Infectious Blend of Drag, Science and Environmental Justice. Prepare for an outbreak of a different kind, as Liverpool’s streets will be contaminated with creativity as drag artist Auntie Climax embodies Cholera herself, leading audiences through the city’s hidden waterways and forgotten histories in the most provocative walking tour that will ever take over your body and imagination.
“We’re not just performing history,” explains Liverpool Hope University Senior Lecturer Annalaura Alifuoco. “We’re diagnosing present-day symptoms of environmental injustice and offering a different kind of treatment – one that centres collective wellbeing, communal knowledge and joyful resistance.”
Co-created with Toxteth L8 residents, Liverpool based artists Hwa Young Jung, Dr. Annalaura Alifuoco, social researchers Dr. Rachel Seoighe, Dr. Trude Sundberg, physician / microbiologist Dr. Natalie Beveridge and Granby Winter Garden, the tour emerges from genuine community voices and lived experiences. This is activism disguised as entertainment – or perhaps entertainment that refuses to be cleansed of its political power.
A Watershed: Where Art Meets Activism
This isn’t your typical history lesson. Led by the mesmerising Auntie Climax in full cholera drag, audiences will trace the actual flow of the deadly microorganism through Liverpool’s historic sites, from Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral to Granby Four Streets. But don’t expect a dry academic lecture – this is immersive theatre that makes science sexy and activism urgent.
The tour viscerally demonstrates how water has always been Liverpool’s most intimate social connector, from shared springs to the impact of bodies of water on the shifting communities that make up the city’s ecological citizenship. Through movement, storytelling and easily digestible scientific facts mixed with droplets of reconstituting fluids, audiences will witness how cholera exposed the toxic inequalities flowing through Liverpool’s historical undercurrents.
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- Dates & Times
- July 25th Friday
- July 26th Saturday
- July 27th Sunday
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