Dirty Market present The Hearing Trumpet

based on the novel by Leonora Carrington
supported by Theatre Delicatessen

Dirty Market are taking over Theatre Delicatessen’s Old Library in Burgess Park with a radical theatre adaptation of Surrealist Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet. With live music and animation, ancient monsters and psychoanalysts, join Dirty Market on a weird and wonderful journey through The Old Library for a joyful celebration of outcasts and rebels.

Opening on Carrington’s centenary, 6 April 2017, we meet 92-year old Marian who is deaf and lost in her memories. Dumped in a sinister care home, Marian finds herself amongst a band of rebellious elderly inmates. With live music and animation, ancient monsters and psychoanalysts, join Dirty Market on a weird and wonderful journey through The Old Library for a celebration of outcasts and rebels.

Dirty Market’s The Hearing Trumpet is the UK’s first major theatre adaptation of Carrington’s work; known for her paintings inspired by myth, female sexuality, and autobiography.

Dirty Market are a theatre company who make innovative performances out of stuff that’s normally thrown away. Known for their distinctive DIY aesthetic and unique bricolage creative approach, Dirty Market often make work in non-theatre buildings. The imaginative ensemble behind Bacchaefull (Time Out Critic’s choice), Dirty Market’s productions transform spaces and take audiences onsurprising, visceral journeys.