“All in attendance for the recently departed… all oxygen swallowers, money spenders, followers of lies and time lenders, the end is near, but fear not for we are all virgins at the point of death. None of us fit, but our coffins will…. your death is our pleasure. “
The Church of the Sturdy Virgin is a surreal and macabre, comic and touching, immersive theatrical voyage exploring our connection with death. At The Church we believe we should all have a say in our final definition; a story is, as the saying goes, only as good as its ending. Audience members are invited to look death square in the face and choose the manner of their final remembrance. In a fully immersive funeral parlour and chapel, audience members are cast as corpses, congregants and next-of-kin and enlisted to create bespoke funeral services. Our shadowy Parish lies on an unstable spiritual cross-roads… we must all assume responsibility for the final word… we are all in this together. Abide with us dear one