Bog Witch at HOME
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Bog Witch
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Following a critically acclaimed London run, Bryony Kimmings brings Bog Witch to HOME.
If you’ve followed Kimmings’ work – from I’m a Phoenix, Bitch to Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model and Fake It ’Til You Make It – you’ll know she specialises in turning the raw material of her own life into theatre that’s funny, feral and disarmingly honest. This time, it involves ecosystem collapse, single motherhood, mental illness, Deliveroo, dopamine and a tumbledown cottage in the wilderness.
Bog Witch charts Kimmings’ decision to uproot her life and move her family to a regenerative permaculture homestead – a last-ditch attempt to feel sane, happy and plugged back into something real. Not exactly an obvious eco-warrior, she casts herself as the least likely convert: someone deeply fluent in the language of shopping, striving, scrolling, spending. When none of it works, what then?
What unfolds is part stand-up, part gig, part confessional – all landing somewhere English folk horror and cottagecore witchcraft. Songs, choreography and striking design collide with self-deprecating wit. The Guardian called it “haunting and hilarious… a climate reckoning of both cosmic and quotidian proportions”, while The Stage praised Kimmings as “a wry, irresistible storyteller”.
It’s eco-theatre in a way, but Bog Witch isn’t preachy. It’s more a story about reconnection – about what happens when the distractions fall away and we’re left as what Kimmings calls “sad animals”, cut off from our ecosystems for too long. Through harvest festivals, felting and oak trees, she wrestles with the question of how to live better, now.
Expect primeval magic, uncomfortable truths and the kind of strange, autobiographical theatre that only Kimmings makes.
