The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case.

This work follows this figure on a sensuous, suspense-filled and fearsome choreographic journey into the psychological depths of the Goner’s horror. Lightly touching on the topics of abuse, Caribbean migration, alienation, belonging, addiction, and violence, Goner is utilising the formal tools of solo authorship and the aesthetics of horror to create radical visual culture from the marginalised perspective, and to tease out and establish a Black tradition of horror for the live context. How do we look at culturally specific narratives against a backdrop of thrilling, bloody, and psychological horror?

Artist Malik Nashad Sharpe
Choreography Malik Nashad Sharpe
Musical Direction Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura
Set Design Felix Villiers
Lighting Design Barnaby Booth
Costume Design Erik Annerborn
Production Manager James Dawson
Assistant Production Manager Han Sayles
Project Producer Michael Kitchin
Strategic Producers The Uncultured
Music Composition and Sound Design Luke Blair
Rehearsal Direction Blue Makwana
Dramaturgical Support Jay Miller
Hair ManWigs
Featuring music Arif Cooper (R.I.P.), De Schuurman, Poundshoppe, and Don Sinini
Voiceover OBOBOB
Text Consultancy Travis Alabanza
Promotional Images Ralf Hersborg
Promotional Styling HASZNAT*
Trailer/Short Film Sinisa
Trailer/Image Movement Direction Ethan Samuel Jacobs
Trailer Talent Isabelle Gzowski, Gabriel Chen, Chloe Filani, Iman Villaruel, Shemi Cudjoe
Trailer Sound ‘Body of Carbon’ by Croation Amor and Varg2TM courtesy of Posh Isolation