Thanks It Is Over

Thanks It Is Over

Co-created by Caroline Horton & Alex Swift

This is goodbye.

This is moving on.

After a 25-year collaboration, some awards and quite a lot of mental illness, Caroline Horton and Alex Swift are done with theatre.

It’s become apparent that it’s entirely unsustainable for them, their partners, their children, their mortgages and so on. The costs are (in many different ways) too high.

Like most other people they know, they’ve recently realised they’re neurodivergent, which explains some of what’s gone on up to this point. Anyway, think of this as a funeral – or a wake – of sorts.

A sane new chapter is beginning.

But as the lights go down, as they say their goodbyes, the pair start to hold on. They find themselves holding on to the precious alternate reality of their weird rehearsal rooms and their neurodivergent friendship – because these things have offered them an escape from the world but also a way to be in the world.

Thanks It Is Over explores what it is to create spaces of safety and creative possibility, of neuroqueerness and hope in the face of a world that often feels indifferent and hostile.

Normally Caroline is on stage and normally Alex is directing. But this time they’re negotiating what it is to share the onstage space with each other. There will be music and monsters and some madness.

Thanks It Is Over is a new piece of theatre produced by China Plate. For more information, please email Abbie White on [email protected]