Name: Mercury Fur - Philip Ridley Talkback by Middle Child
Duration: 48 min 3 s
Description: Mercury Fur writer, Philip Ridley, joins Middle Child's artistic director, Paul Smith, for a post-show Q&A in Hull on Thursday 15 October 2015.

I See Only Red

The Biz

S.T.B.Y.

Humiliate Me

Shoutro

Dance 4eva

RATZ!

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Bowling (title inspired by Anne Boleyn) is about misogyny. It’s inspired by the intense hatred some people feel towards women & how people wish to silence us, shame us, vilify us or wish us dead. The track also comments on how women are often viewed as having an expiry date. Why is it that when women age, change their appearance or don’t fulfil society’s standards of beauty, they’re classed as undesirable?

LYRICS ////////

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head

Her beauty is useless
Her future is fruitless
Her body is rotting
Just look at the bruises
Her prudence is poison
Her shrewdness destroys us
Her purpose is pointless
She’s better of voiceless

She used to be charming
Her looks were disarming
So delicious, you felt you were starving
She’d melt you like butter
So shook you would stutter
Weak at the knees, your heart it would flutter

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
She’s not what you want so she’s better of dead

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
She’s not what you want so she’s better of dead

His appearance is ageless
His future is fearless
His stature is strong
Just standing with greatness
His judgement is flawless
His sharpness supports us
His purpose is precious
His presence is joyous

They said give it the chop
Take it clean off
Prove to them that you are the boss
They said nothing is tougher
Than killing another
How can you live whilst making us suffer?

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
She’s not what you want so she’s better of dead

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head

Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head
Off off off with her head

Bowling (Off With Her Head)

Mercury Fur writer, Philip Ridley, joins Middle Child's artistic director, Paul Smith, for a post-show Q&A in Hull on Thursday 15 October 2015. 

Mercury Fur - Philip Ridley Talkback

We are a Hull-based company creating theatre that brings people together for a good night out with big ideas.

We are an Arts Council England national portfolio organisation and associate company of Paines Plough, supported by Hull City Council.

Mercury Fur - Philip Ridley Talkback

Middle Child

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