Bog Body by Twickenham-born playwright Jen Tucker is a 40-minute one-woman show about Petra, who delivers a monologue 30 minutes before her wedding, revealing her love for the Lindow Man – a real-life, preserved Iron Age body discovered in a peat bog.
The play explores themes of desire, love, decay and death, using the Lindow Man as a lens through which Petra processes her own life and grief.
Petra shares the stage with the imagined voices of her late sister, psychiatrist and brother-in-law, as she tries to piece together the events surrounding both the Lindow Man’s death and her twin sister’s untimely passing.
The play blends elements of the uncanny, hallucination and dark humour, creating what has been described as a “bizarre and unpredictable performance.”
Produced by queer-led Itchy Feet Theatre, Bog Body marks the company’s first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The company, which focuses on placing women and queer voices on stage, has previously earned critical acclaim for productions in London, including an OffComm award for The Nine-Day Queen and Best Writing: Runner Up at the Riverside Studios’ Bitesize Festival for The Defamation.
Itchy Feet Theatre is committed to expanding its reach across the UK and supporting emerging artists.
The play has already received strong reviews, with Theatre and Tonic describing it as “a macabre, poetic one-woman show… Bog Body deserves to be seen and remembered.”
Maddie White stars as Petra.
Bog Body will run from August 18 to August 24 at The Vault, Paradise in the Vault (Venue 29) in Edinburgh.
Performances begin at 2pm and the show runs for 40 minutes.
Tickets are priced at £12.50, with concessions available at £10.
Ticket bookings are available on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe website.
