OYSTER

Layer on layer

The river keeps arriving

The sea keeps answering

Between them 

The Oyster. 

Never fixed 

Never finished 

Breathing. 

Becoming. 

Held in the meeting place 

Not one thing or the other 

But both 

And slowly -

almost imperceptibly -

the shoreline shifts a little

—

OYSTER is the first solo theatre show from award-winning artist and innovator Malin Lewis. 

Blending spoken word, design, Scottish folk and electronic music, Malin conjures a hypnotic and richly immersive world. OYSTER deconstructs and reimagines the traditions and landscapes Malin grew up within, offering an entrancing exploration of transness, the inherent queerness of nature, and the muddy, transformative world of oysters.

The oyster acts as both subject and metaphor. The oyster grows in the muddy place in-between. It creates pearl from grist. Born male and becomes female; the oyster offers a framework through which to explore gender, resilience, becoming and continuing. OYSTER offers a space to reflect on the ways our own identities can shift, grow and transform.

Surreal, intimate and evocative, OYSTER is a journey through transformation and identity. Inviting us to reconsider what happens when we move beyond the boundaries and binaries we have been taught to recognise, giving opportunity to relearn the possibilities of the natural world.