Following rave reviews at its Australian premiere season in January, as part of Melbourne’s queer cultural festival Midsumma, UK performance-maker Scottee has returned to St Kilda’s Theatre Works for a short return season of The Worst of Scottee. Created in conjunction with a psychotherapist and a filmmaker, and directed by Chris Goode, the production can seem abject, confessional and humiliating to audiences, but Scottee himself sees it very differently.
‘I guess most people do think it’s humiliating or that I’m exposing myself somehow, but I don’t think it is. I think we should all take ownership of our shame, and that’s what I’m trying to say with this show. That actually I don’t find these things humiliating because … we all have this horrible stuff, things we’ve done to other human beings in learning to be who we are now,’ he said.
