FISHY
2018-2019

someone fished a fish

and found seventeen bits of plastic in it

if you cut me open 

you’d find plastic in me too.

as time passed the ocean

turned (like my insides)
from water 
to a thick plastic soup.

with no fresh food bloated fishes

floated to the ocean’s jello surface
,
their stomachs
 turned up.

my stomach was aching.

the earth’s storms became constant.

winds whipped the congealed ocean surface

throwing the dead fish and plastic dregs

up into the dark and wild skies.

in the depths below the untamed waves

something stirred.
i felt it
 deep in my belly.

i felt it

clawing out
and into the future.

"Haunting and gorgeous"
“Epic” 

FISHY is a visually mesmerizing post-punk performance. Rushes uses the grotesque to create a dreamy turned nightmarish queer underworld that explores the altered ecosystems of our impending future. Here, the old-world slips and collides with the industrial pop Anthropocene.

Fishy premiered at The Yard’s NEXT Festival (2019) and toured the UK to The Cube Microplex Bristol, Humberton Gallery Hull, Centre for Live Art Yorkshire and was supported by National Lottery Project Grants from Arts Council England. Excerpts of FISHY and early work-in-progresses have shown at The Yard Theatre Live Drafts and First Drafts (2018), The Royal Vauxhall Tavern and Rich Mix London presented by Steakhouse Live Festival (2018).

Fishy was made with the support of The Yard Theatre, Queen Mary University London and National Lottery Project Grants from Arts Council England.

Steakouse Live, Rich Mix London 2018. Images by Manuel Vason

The Yard Theatre London 2018. Images by Sophie Le Roux

Humberton Gallery Leeds, 2019.