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INSECTA

Unnerving, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful

lnsecta thrives on the rotten dirt, digging into the uncertainties and contradictions of humanity. Astute and striking theatre unafraid of nightmares. Don’t blink or you won’t know where it’ll scuttle off to.

lnsecta creates distorted worlds that merge time periods and joins poetry and minimalism, allowing the audience to pick apart the fantasy to find their truth underneath. lnsecta is the theatre that gets under your nails and stays there. The poison and the antidote of  the  21st century living. lnsecta eats the ancestors, feeds the future, and survives, patiently, until it finds you again.

lnsecta was co-founded by Andrew Mapperley and Elisabetha Gruener in January 2022, graduates of the Contemporary Theatre course at East 15 Acting School. They have produced the plays Mouthful of Fingers, Desensitised and Our Box. Their work has been performed at Debut Festival, The Bread & Roses Theatre, The Glitch and Launch Festival.

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FOUNDERS OF INSECTA THEATRE

ELISABETHA GRUENER
she/her

Proud Mexican with a passion for rebel bitterness. She is the director of Mouthful of Fingers and writer and director of Our Box, she has also assisted the director of Post Sex Spagbol at VAULT Festival 2023. In Mexico City she’s adapted and directed An Apology to Lady Gaga. As an actor she’s been in Prisms at The Space, Flowers in a Dark Room at The Other Palace and in Mexico in TOC TOC, The Vagina Monologues produced by Mejor Teatro, and coming up Los Fridos at Foro Lucerna.

ANDREW MAPPERLEY
he/him

Andrew is a Nottingham born artist determined to make dark and surreal art that speaks to the ills of 21st century living.

Andrew has written and performed his two plays: Mouthful of Fingers which premiered at Debut Festival and then transferred to The Bread and Roses Theatre and The Bridge House Theatre in 2022. And "Desensitised" which premiered at Launch Festival and is transferring to VAULT Festival 2023 in February. He’s currently writing his third play Squatting which was performed as a work in progress in The Old Red Lion Theatre.

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