The City for Incurable Women: Performance
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
23 Jun 2025 | 06:30 PM
Ladies and Gentlethem – Feeling a little upset? Have you tried hypnosis, psychoanalysis, smelling salts and it just doesn’t work? Try The City for Incurable Women!
Paris, 1880s. In a psychiatric hospital, female patients performed “hysteria” on stage for the public. The doctors went to extraordinary lengths to prove their theories about the four stages of madness.
International theatre-collective, fish in a dress, follows the thread of the history of hysteria as the audience becomes complicit in an outrageous tale of medical misogyny.
(Warning: hysteria cure not included)
Running Time: 50 minutes
fish in a dress is a London and Berlin based theatre collective founded in 2024 by Christina Deinsberger, Charlotte McBurney, and Helena McBurney. ‘The City for Incurable Women’ is the first project for fish in a dress. We aim to devise new work from a queer-feminist perspective. We are committed to developing theatre across national borders and a climate conscious practice.
Instagram: @fishinadress
Cast: Charlotte McBurney
Director: Christina Deinsberger
Writer: Helena McBurney
Design: Vanessa Sampaio Borgmann
Sound: Bella Kear
Doors open: 7:15pm
Performance Start: 7:30pm
Join us after the talk for an exclusive evening view of the museum until 9pm
