By Dee, Cornelius and Wilks
One small woman takes on the world.
Following their incredibly successful and multi award-winning collaboration on SHIT, Susie Dee, Patricia Cornelius and Nicci Wilks have re-teamed to create RUNT, a play about the runts of the world: the lesser, the unwanted, the weak, those without clout, the insignificant; all the unders.
Runt, a small undernourished woman has endured enough of the misery of being the runt of the litter. She toughens up and attempts to take power, to lead the oppressed, to rise up and fight, for equality, for decency and what’s right. She liberates sack after sack after sack of miserable runts. And she grows. She feels herself reaching eight foot or more. She gets a taste for what it means to be great. Trouble is, ‘greatness forgets runtness’.
About Nicci Wilks, Susie Dee & Patricia Cornelius.
RUNT is a work which is the next step in the extensive line up of works created by Dee and Cornelius, Dee and Wilks and Dee, Cornelius and Wilks. It comes from a tradition of works which powerfully investigate gender and class. The works include SHIT, a play that has taken the country and the world by storm, a play written by Cornelius, directed by Susie Dee and performed with Nicci Wilks. It’s an audacious and confronting work which deals with social justice and inequity. It uses agrungy poetic style and allows the female characters a wonderful physicality and presence which is often denied women on stage. The works of the 3 artists, Cornelius, Dee and Wilks have a faithful and devoted following.