Pop music and true stories about youth, sex and gender. 

Working with teenagers from Reykjavik, Iceland, the Teenage Choir of Love and Sex sing songs they have written themselves based on their own romantic and sexual experiences. They sing for themselves and each other. They sing for love, curiosity and heartbreak. They sing for every virgin, every slut and every thirsty bitch – so they never need to feel alone again.

Teenagers and music are made for each other. The songs we listen to in our youth, and the stories they tell, determine how we come to understand ourselves and the world around us, separating right from wrong. But what if all heteronormative pop songs were about something different? Based on stories told by youths, A Teenage Songbook of Love and Sex seeks new ways to talk and think about love, gender, and sex.

Concept and Creation: Ásrún Magnúsdóttir and Alexander Roberts

Musically directed and composed with: Teitur Magnússon 

Co-authors and performers: Lísbet Sveinsdóttir, Marta Ákadóttir, Salóme Júlíusdóttir, Ísafold Kristín, Katla Sigurðardóttir Snædal, Kolfinna Ingólfsdóttir, Óliver Ali, Uloma Osuala, Una Barkadóttir, Karen Nordquist Ragnarsdóttir, Egill Andrason, Haukur Guðnason, Hanna Gréta Jónsdóttir, Sverrir Gauti Svavarsson og Karólína Einarsdóttir.

Choir-conductors: Sigríður Soffía Hafliðadóttir and Aron Steinn Ásbjarnarson

Premiered: Meteor Festival, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway and Reykjavík Dance Festival, Tjarnarbío, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Co-produced by: BIT Teatergarasjen, Teenagers in Reykjavík, Reykjavík Dance Festival, the Nordic Residency Platform, NORDBUK and apap – Performing Europe 2020 which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

New for this year we’re offering a tiered discount on bookings for multiple shows, giving you savings whether you’re planning to attend just a handful or all of them. The more tickets you buy, the more you save.

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Please note that our ticket purchasing is administered by Midlands Arts Centre. If you are an existing customer of Midlands Arts Centre, please use your account login details to purchase Fierce Festival tickets on this website.

“Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok tells me this show might do that but don’t worry we can just trauma bond” 

Demi is obsessed with trauma, childhood trauma, naming it, analysing it,healing from it, and getting-on-stage-to-perform-it. That last one might be a trauma response but you can decide that. Having entered her 30’s Demi expected to be more whole, more healed, to not still feel like a child. Because trauma lives in the body and the body keeps the score, and we all know what that means. Disclaimer: Demi doesn’t know what that means.

The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, ‘therapise’ culture and how TikTok can heal us all.

Access and content information to help you decide if The Trauma Show is for you.

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