‘Goner’ explores alienation, addiction and violence against a thrilling horror backdrop at Lowry

Performing on Wed 2 Apr for one night only at Lowry, the award-winning choreographer and dancer Malik Nashad Sharpe charts a suspenseful, beguiling and viscerally sensuous voyage into the psyche of a condemned figure in his gripping new show, Goner.

Fresh from its world tour, Goner follows a lone soul bound hopelessly to death, doomed to a brutal ballet with anguish from which there can be no escape. Speaking about the show, Malik Nashad Sharpe said: “Goner comes from watching a lot of horror films and being really inspired, particularly by the likes of Jordan Peele [Get Out]. But also by other horror and gore-zombie media. I’ve become interested in the person who’s doomed, the subjectivity of this person who’s about to turn into a zombie and leave their life, gets viciously mauled by a monster or goes into the creepy house on the hill and never comes back.”

Unfolding against a backdrop of ruthless, blood-soaked dread, Sharpe’s intoxicating descent into The Goner’s inner world explores themes of abuse, Caribbean migration, alienation, belonging, addiction and violence, producing a ‘radical visual culture’ from a marginalised perspective and creating a new Black tradition of horror for a live context.

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