Fight, flight or freeze. Those are our responses to threat. We do not need to think about them. Our animal instinct kicks in long before rational thought. We simply act. Beneath the high-status jobs, the designer clothes and the fancy cars, our animal selves remain. We have become domesticated, but only at the expense of repressing our ancient urges. Our social selves, polite and forgiving, are just a sheen to help us get along.
But what if it weren’t that way? In this lucid solo show, written and performed by Isla Cowan, Maggie is a young professional, working for a consultancy firm, harbouring ambitions to claw her way to the top. Having embraced the competitive values of the corporate world, she finds herself confounded by a system more voracious than even she is prepared for. Cornered into a fury of frustration – angered by class, by privilege, by male dominance – she is no longer willing to restrain her inner she-wolf. [READ MORE]