Director & Artist
PREPARE IT (MY BODY), Barbican Pit Theatre ‘19
PREPARE IT (MY BODY) is a play that works at the intersection of queer and Crip identity. Conceived by Crispin Lord and Jessi Parrott, it uses a mixture of spoken text, music, sculpture and technology to explore the impact of Jessi’s teenage trauma on her development of a sense of self as a bisexual woman and wheelchair user. In this series of fragmented vignettes, the perpetrators are stripped of their human form; deconstructed and transformed into an array of animations and video pieces. Yet in confronting them, Jessi remains herself.
Writer & Director: Crispin Lord
Performer & Dramaturg: Jessi Parrott
Animation: Maurice Andresen
Sound: Jonathan Packham
Photos: Crispin Lord