Provocative and intelligent, visceral and strange: Whelping Box is a breeding ground for wild things; for dogs and gods.

Two performers chain themselves to stakes, to test their limits and strip themselves of civility. Through feats of endurance, absurd rituals and idiosyncratic mythmaking, they map out a restless and aggressive initiation. Like athletes or shamans, they are your guides, guinea pigs and preachers. They feed on your energy in a series of tasks that attempt to transcend the confines of normality.

With the audience seated around the action in a giant whelping-box-cum-catwalk, this is a place to test the body, the performer, and the spectator; a place of unsettling permissions and a pageantry born of violence. Blurring the lines between theatre, dance and performance art, Whelping Box fearlessly explores concepts of self-made mythology, machismo, and the power that lies in places of powerlessness