We Ask These Questions of Everybody

Hera, Amble Skuse and Toria Banks

31st October 2022 - 18th December 2022
Digital illustration of a person with flora and fauna billowing out from their head against a grey photographic background of a street

Hannah needs help. She meets Lynn. Lynn works for  the Department of Work and Pensions. An assessment takes place...and then something else.

This is an encounter between two women, an audience, and a riotous chorus of disabled voices. ‘We Ask These Questions of Everybody’ transforms a benefits interview into opera, and shares radical and surprising disabled perspectives on society and on ourselves. A 50 minute digital operatic experience sharing disabled people’s experiences under austerity in the UK, it is performed by an exceptional cross-genre, all-disabled ensemble.

'Astonishing: elegant, enraging, restlessly inventive'  The I ★★★★★
’Staggering urgency and grace’ Theatre Weekly ★★★★
The Stage ★★★★
A Younger Theatre ★★★★
The UpComing ★★★★


Duration
53 minutes


Ticket price
Pay What You Decide


Age guidance
14+


Access
BSL, integrated captions, integrated audio description (ie. the piece is complete as just audio)


Content warnings
Benefits Assessments, Department of Work and Pensions, ableism, anti-disabled hate, chronic pain, death, mortality, mention of suicide

More detailed information on these content warnings is available on Hera's website

Booking Options

Standalone ticket
Ticket for We Ask These Questions of Everybody only, available on demand from October 31 at 12pm.
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DDFI Digital pass - week 2
Pass for all 3 digital exclusives available on demand from October 31 at 12pm.
Book your week 2 pass here


DDFI Full On Demand Festival Pass
A festival pass that grants you online access to everything programmed for DaDaFest International 2022, both digital exclusives and recordings of all in-person events
Book your full On Demand Pass here<a

Booking Options

Standalone ticket
Ticket for Flight Paths only, available on demand from October 31 at 12pm.
Book for this event only


DDFI Digital pass - week 2
Pass for all 4 digital exclusives available on demand from October 31 at 12pm.
Book your week 2 pass here


DDFI Full On Demand Festival Pass
A festival pass that grants you online access to everything programmed for DaDaFest International 2022, both digital exclusives and recordings of all in-person events

 
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