Kill Drill by Luke O'Field
15 - 19 July 2025, 7.30 pm
After getting employed on a North Sea oil rig with the sole intention of staging a sit-in protest, Agent One (AKA Dawn), treasurer to the choir, and Agent Two (AKA Kit) an environmental science graduate, find themselves in a perilous situation. Trapped in a room full of drilling instruments and forced to negotiate, the lines of protest, activism, and terrorism are blurred. With the clock ticking and danger closing in from all sides, is the only option to Kill Drill or be killed?
Award-winning Unmasked Theatre returns with a timely dark comedy that explores if there is ever a right way to protest, the perils of an oil rig, and the improvement in vegan pizza.
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Further Information:
Shelter is a show largely about interrogating the relationship of a lesbian couple, Jess and Ross that has been tainted by outside bigotry - as such it deals with difficult topics throughout its course. This is not particularly a play about characters gaining trauma - but about dealing with recurring traumas, and about emotional self-harm.
Abusive Relationship Dynamics:
Jess and Ross often mediate their relationship through sex in a way that is often not healthy, this is depicted throughout the play as a facet of the power imbalances core to their relationship. There are two moments that may be particularly upsetting to audience members in which Ross threatens to stab Jess in an erotic context and another in which Jess seeks Ross’ sexual control to escape an emotional breakdown. There is no physical violence depicted.
Bigotry:
Jess and Ross have internalized ideas about themselves and each other informed by transphobic, homophobic, and transmisogynistic narratives which manifest in their relationship. There are two moments that may be particularly upsetting to audience members in which Jess asks Ross to describe her in order to fuel her dysphoria and another in which a letter from Jess’ homophobic Christian extremist brother is read aloud. No slurs are said.
Mental Illness:
Jess and Ross are both mentally ill as a result of their current situation trapped in a bunker and their respective trauma. Jess is depicted as having a bout of religious psychosis when she imagines a radio playing a hymn and Ross is depicted as having indirect suicidal ideation and an apparent reliance on cigarettes to regulate her emotions.
Miscellaneous triggers:
The play also contains content that may be triggering to those sensitive to Claustrophobia (the characters are locked in a confined space), Cryophobia (the characters have to contend with the shelter becoming colder over time), Restricted Eating (the characters have a limited food source), Food Contamination (there is discussion of mould), Loss of HRT (Jess has to ration her limited oestrogen supply) and Needles (there is an on-stage injection).