Dark and Lovely

Ovalhouse’s autumn season 2015 celebrates the fantastical amidst the everyday. FABULISM is a form of magical realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting. This autumn Ovalhouse opens its doors to the possibilities of FABULISM allowing the mundane to become magical and the ordinary to become extraordinary.

Dark & Lovely is a performance from inside the Tumbleweave; a home for hair built from abandoned weaves and extensions. Using recorded conversation, music and written text Selina explores the complexities of social debate surrounding Black hair, transforming the Tumbleweave, which is admittedly ‘a little bit gross’, into something beautiful, which can transcend the weight of all the connotations placed upon it, and reveal just what our hair does, and more importantly, doesn’t tell us, about what it is to be Black.

Please note this performance is around 1 hour 10 mins and the audience will be required to stand throughout. If you have any access requirements please speak to a member of the Box Office on 020 7582 7680.