Disabled + Disobedient | Cabaret

Erin Enfys (they/them) is a disabled, neurodivergent and queer-non binary performer, writer, and musician based in Brighton. They trained in Musical Theatre at the London College of Music and have had a diverse career in theatre, film and musicals. They create subversive, authentic, community-driven performances that are informed by their own lived experience.

Ebony Rose Dark is your all- singing, all-dancing, lip syncing, story telling, miming V.I.P/ Visually Impaired Cabaret/Performance Artist.

Ebony is known for her performances around Disability, Ableism, racism, and relationships within the LGBTQ+ community particularly through The Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Bar Wotever – where Ebony first emerged.

Alongside renowned performances at various UK Prides, Hoopla, Marlborough Productions and regularly with David Hoyle, Ebony has been focussing on accessible Cabaret for LGBTQ+Visually impaired people.

Excitingly, Ebony has just premiered their full length first solo work, complete with Audio description throughout, at The Place in London.

Joni-Rae Carrack is a theatre-maker specialising in puppetry whose work explores mental health, disability and working with biography. Making theatre and art is her way of understanding life and human stories, including her own.

She is all about honesty, awareness, curiosity and starting conversation. 

She will be joined by Iain Scott, a multi-instrumentalist, improviser and director. Iain's work focuses on using music to explore the sense of identity and self and looks to combine traditional Scottish folk music with modern drone and ambient styles.

Sana El-Wakili is an experimental and multidisciplinary actor, dancer, poet and theatre maker. She is influenced by sounds, hip hop culture, visuals and lived experience, and has recently appeared on BBC radio. She has previously worked with Carmen Collective (Camden People’s Theatre) and theatre company, Complicité. More recently she's been working on new theatre pieces of her own. Known to be a raw and distinct voice, she's an alumna of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and the National Youth Theatre’s Playing Up programme.

Rachel is a neurodivergent theatre maker, writer and performance poet with ADHD. She trained as an actor (classical, physical, comical, ridicule), then developed her own work as a freelance Artist, devising, directing, founding and growing a theatre company, until eventually buckling under the weight of all the secret admin no-one seems to talk about.  But now the truth is out.

Full-throttle burnout 

a couple of years since
had her hunker down in a bunker for a bit 
diagnosed in 1997, ADHD wasn’t something you admit
especially for girls, they said

keep your head down, wear this mask, you’ll probably grow out of it 
anyway, she didn’t

SO
Now you know

Way back when, Rachel made highly-physical theatre shows
Celebrating stories of communities she knows
Whose life and truth and humour brought the joy out in her
Though

She always wondered what would happen
If she put the same love in her own

The time has come to tell it now
Rachel’s story
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