The phenomenon of British boarding school has roots in the 6th century, evolving from a tradition of the Church offering a kind of education to poor children (boys) in return for singing and “bodies in the space”, to become an elite educational system designed to preserve privilege and power across generations.

In recent years psychotherapists have identified a specific set of impacts (“boarding school syndrome”) affecting young children separated from their families and having their Mother figure replaced the institution. This has cultural significance due to the highly disproporationate number of people who are educated htis way and go on to take up positions of power and influence in UK and global society.

The performance is an investigation into this phenomenon from a personal and an embodied symbolic perspective and is initiated by an invitation to write a chapter for a book on Myths and Mothering with Demeter Press (tba).