Filip Vest opens the studio at Warehouse9's Qlab lab for a worksharing of Cattle Call, a performance about precarious work, identity, exhaustion and humiliation seen through a queer lens. The show follows a creature with long ears and small calf horns, stuck in an endless open audition and trying to work out what the unseen casting figure wants from it.
Part monster, part pop princess, the creature dances, sings and slips between roles such as Frankenstein's monster, Gollum, Dobby, Marilyn Monroe, Barbra Streisand and Dolly Parton, while a harsh buzzer and a red light from the absent caster keep breaking in. Francesca Burattelli provides the music, Will Zawistowski the light design and Louise de Venecia the choreographic consultancy.
