Welcome To My Death

🎟️Entry: Scaled Payment (see below).
Pay At Door (cash or card) is also available. But please email us ([email protected]) to let us know you are coming.

📅 Date & Time: 19:00, 24 (Tue) & 26 (Thu) November , 2026

📍Venue: The Longshore Room (Details below)

☠️A New Play by Hui Chen & Nadja Marthall🍊

☠️Welcome to My Death is a transdisciplinary solo performance exploring our collective relationship with mortality — from physical decay to spiritual rebirth. Blending movement, storytelling, digital imagery, audience interaction, personal stories and rituals, it invites the audience to hold death not as tragedy, but as teacher — a mirror through which we rediscover how to live.

🍊🍊Ivee, a playful, curious orchardist tending a tangerine orchard, invites the audience to their joyful death party — a living funeral sparked by a fortune-teller’s prediction of their end.

Through movement, storytelling, digital imagery, audience interaction, personal stories and rituals, guests journey with Ivee across an ever-shifting inner landscape of fear, mirth, grief, and wonder, gradually opening toward a gentle acceptance of both life and death.

The journey spirals with tangerines weaving through — as fruit, as offering, as symbol — revealing themselves to be far more than they first appear. But as Ivee is finally laid to rest and suddenly breathe again, a quiet truth slips through: this is not the first time Ivee has died… and it may not be the last.

Team:

Creator/Performer/Director/Producer: Hui Chen

Co-creator: Nadja Marthall

Producer & Marketing: Sunny Jie Liu

Video: Hui Chen, Shuxin (Theresa) Si

Set: Roseline Jingyuan Zhang

Sound: Shuxin (Theresa) Si

Lighting: Xuan (Luka) Ge

Costume: Kim Foster Dillon

VO: Hui Chen, 5, 6, Maureen Hyde, Daniel Torres Lara, Manzi, Nadja Marthall, Xuliu Song, Tangtang Tang,

Artistic Mentor: Helen Tennison

Dramaturg Consultant: Xingmo Ren

Graphic Designer: Shuxin (Theresa) Si

Original Media Art Concept Designer: Xiaomin Fan

📍Venue: The Longshore Room

STUDIO Directions:

The Studio is at the PEPYS COMMUNITY LIBRARY, Foreshore, London, SE8 3BA.
Put “The Longshore Room” into Google map will be more accurate than the post code.
Or use what3words: ///wiring.nights.civil (https://w3w.co/wiring.nights.civil)

Underground to CANADA WATER or Overground to SURREY QUAYS, from there take the 199 Bus towards CATFORD BUS GARAGE and disembark at the RIVERSIDE YOUTH CLUB (approx 8 - 10 min Bus ride)
https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/199/
Turn LEFT when leaving the bus and take the first right - keep walking straight through the estate - cross the road (Bowditch) then slightly uphill into “Longshore” and keep walking straight until you come to the Thames - the Library is on your right.
See map enclosed.

🚗Free parking.

🧑‍🦼Venue is NOT wheelchair accessible because it's a listed building and the space is at the basement.

🍺Bring your OWN alcohol and drinks.

🍵🍪We sell teas, soft drinks and snacks on the day.

⇒The Longshore is in the basement of Pepys Community Hub. This unique and special location hosts a variety of events such as: music concerts, listening sessions, film screenings, poetry readings, film and photography, exhibitions, classes and training etc....
Events can host up to 100 people. Evening events are usually until 9 pm, but longer opening hours can be arranged.
Please be mindful this is a residential neighbourhood. There is access to a small kitchen, Film-projector and screen.