Have you ever seen a dead body?
SOLACE returns with a rendition of the sold out show, SHOCK - SHOCK πΉππππππ. Blending body performance art, experimental electronic soundscapes and live theatre to create a space where flesh, memory, fear and grief collide. Drawing from the themes of Mary Shelley's horror classic Frankenstein, this new and boundary pushing performance asks: What happens to the body when it is no longer yours? When your grief infects the flesh? When the only way to survive is to become the very thing you're terrified you already are?
'SHOCK πΉππππππ' excavates the raw nerves of grief, loss and the fragile boundaries of the human body. Through acts of dissection, transformation and reclamation, the performer moves through a raw anatomy of loss: the loss of a loved one, the loss of control, the loss of what it means to be human. Guided by obtrusive movement, poetic monologues, costume spectacle and a live electronic soundscape that fractures, pulses and mutates in real time with the performers body: at times unbearable, at times heartbreakingly still. The space becomes a living autopsy. A sonic wound - that twists flesh into frequency and grief into distortion.
Dark. Tender. Unrelenting.
βSHOCK - πΉππππππβ is a confrontation with the self - unflinching, feral, aliveβ¦
This is not about becoming a monster.
This is about realising you were never given the choice not to be one.
This is a live dissection of self.
Grief is the first incision.
Following on from a two night sold out show - SUCK - performed at The Pen Theatre October 2024, and the sold out show - SHOCK' - performed at Piehouse Workers Co-Op October 2025, Solace Theatre returns with a brand new offering of boundary pushing performance which marries together live theatre and underground performance art. Interpreting yet another horror classic. This time Mary Shelley's iconic novel, Frankenstein. The show has been expanded into a 2 act structure and taken on a new life, with new writing and new additions to the score. Hope has been found, and destruction is no longer the final act.
This show confronts difficult themes such as grief and loss, body horror, simulated sexual violence and self mutilation.
Written and Directed by Sol Harding (@s0l_05)
Co-Written and Original Score by Joe Walsh (@imithe)
Starring SOL (Performer)
Starring Imithe (Live Score)
Saturday 28th March 2026
Vespers Club, Peckham
133a Rye Lane, SE15 4BQ
Doors 19:00
Show 20:00
Bring it back to life.