INSECTA THEATRE
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.
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 is also assistant director of Post Sex Spagbol at VAULT Festival 2023. As an actor she’s been in Prisms at The Space, Gunk at the Etcétera Theatre and Flowers in a Dark Room at The Other Palace.
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 two plays,"Mouthful of Fingers" which premiered at Debut Festival and then transferred to The Bread and Roses Theatre and The Bridge House Theatre. And "Desensitised" which premiered at Launch Festival and is transferring to VAULT Festival 2023 in February.