PAT DOUTHWAITE: ALIVE & KICKING

Pat Douthwaite: Alive and Kicking, is a one-woman show – The Heroica Theatre Company.

Performed by actor, Alexandra Mathie, with live piano accompaniment from Angie Cairns

and projected images, aiming to unravel the knotty bond between Pat Douthwaite’s

somewhat reckless life and her dramatic and often confrontational art works. An artist of

extraordinary and unique vision she screamed out an uncompromising view of the human

condition in works that were nothing less than genius. The art-loving public was by no

means ready for such a maverick and unbridled style as Douthwaite’s and, tragically, she saw

scant proper recognition in her lifetime.

In this production, hailed as ‘a triumph’, Heroica aims to afford Pat Douthwaite the

appreciation and understanding she so richly deserves and to shine a bright light on yet

another wickedly under-sung artist