Icarus:
A love letter to a black monolith.

Presented at:
Winter 2024: Levenshulme Old Library, hosted by Bonjour Claude
Spring 2025: Contact theatre (Social Experiment), with Word of Warning
Summer 2025: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Spring 2026: Castlefield Art Gallery, performance within exhibition, Broken Ecologies

An unfathered father builds a labyrinth to escape himself. Unable to face the monster he created, he dooms his son to an inevitable demise. 

Dedalus was a genius, 

But his failure was at the melting point of wax. 

His son, Icarus flew and fell, trailed by broken wings, into the sea, to his death.

His story is that of boys and men, of the theatre of violence and in its retelling, Xhi Ndubisi explores the phenomena of patriarchy and its consequences. 

Audiences are invited to witness a story both epic and intimate.
Xhi blends her storytelling with imagery from Omari Taylor and James Moss. 

The Apologetics of Icarus is a love letter to a black monolith. It is the story of sisters; Delos became land under the threat of being violated and her sibling, Leto took refuge in that body. The Apologetics tells its audience of the twin gods Leto bore, a girl who had to become a woman quickly, and the boy she helped her mother deliver. 

Its Rebuttal is the tale of Cassandra; a woman punished for a quiet response to the overtures of a god. She said no and was cursed never to be believed.