Kellie Colbert
Dedicated To The One I Love
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Presented by Word of Warning + Contact
NB this performance is sold-out.
And tell all the stars above. This is dedicated to the one I love.
An exploration of anxiety, love, deception, and survival.
(Love can never be exactly like we want it to be.)
How do we give care and how can we tell if somebody really cares for us?
Dedicated To The One I Love draws on Kellie’s real experience of being gaslit — a performance that aims to create a safe space as Kellie confronts the fears of being alone, and falls for an artificial connection. All she wants now is a transfer to reality because the truth is, you don’t own me.
An exposing and relatable performance that challenges and defies suffocating truths we sometimes struggle to believe.
Entry
Pay What You Decide: £10/£5/£0 (advance booking recommended).
Tickets: were available online via Contact; now sold-out.
Time: Thursday 13 March 2025, 7.30pm (ends about 8.25pm, no interval).
Location: Contact (space 2), Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6JA.
Access
Age Advisory: 16+ (aimed at adults, parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: please click here.
Features: a contemporary solo performance work, mainly spoken English with varied content including amplified audio and music; occurs in Space 2 on the second floor, a studio space with raked seating.
Queries: please contact Contact via boxoffice@contactmcr.com
Artist
Kellie is a Greater Manchester-based performance maker. She would describe herself as an autobiographical artist, who creates work that is honest, relatable, and at times self-critical. Kellie uses spoken word and symbolism to explore memories, often focusing on themes of mental health and feminism. She aims to create performance that is both self-exposing and empathetic.
Kellie has collaborated with Eggs Collective, and has been commissioned by NIAMOS & (in)sane Mcr as part of the Starvin Artists project and by Breakdown Bolton to create short performance videos to raise mental health awareness. She is currently part of the co-curation group at Factory International, organising an event for early 2025.
Her biggest accomplishment to date is publicly debuting Root, an intimate performance video that explores and exposes trichotillomania — it went on to be supported by HabitAware, a company who aims to raise awareness for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours.
Credits
Performed & created by: Kellie Colbert
Direction & dramaturgy: Peader Kirk
Audio: Falling in Love & You may feel… by Alan Watts
Music:
Sunken City by Les Baxter; Golden Square by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan; Dedicated to the One I Love by The Mamas & the Papas; You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore; Going Through the Veil - Becoming a Swan by Joanna Brouk.
Produced by hÅb; commissioned for Works Ahead by hÅb & Contact.
Image: Works Ahead 2023 at Contact by Tamsin Drury
Websites
Insta @kellie.colbert.theatre · X @imKellieColbert