Being Britney, Colette Goossens

Being Britney is a solo performance in which Colette Goossens plays a young woman who imagines herself to be the pop icon Britney Spears. Britney is experiencing an acute psychosis. In an uncontrolled, associative, and wild way, she tries to solve fundamental questions of her existence. She is in her bathroom, an intimate space where a world of hallucinations, delusions, and extreme emotions unfolds. Being Britney asks questions about psychosis and the care surrounding it. What is a psychosis really? Should we see a psychosis as an end point? Or can we better look at the rich thoughts and experiences that are hidden underneath? Through existing and new texts, acting, physicality, and rhythm, Colette explores how mental vulnerability can take on an open form on stage that is not stigmatizing.