A girl walks down a blossom-lined street, a knife clutched in her pocket. She’s on her way to confront the man she believes killed her mother.

Batman (aka Naomi’s Death Show) is an interactive live storytelling piece, which is completely true. The play explores the author’s personal experience of parental death and bereavement, satirises the true crime genre, takes audiences through games of Death Bingo and Serial Killer Family Fortunes, the experience of sitting Shiva for the dead, into the world of extreme art via a drowned mansion, and looks at how love can save us or condemn us.

The audience gets to choose the direction of the show, and faces their own complicity: will they choose vengeance, or mercy?

Co-produced by Chronic Insanity and Little but Fierce Theatre

Naomi Westerman

Naomi Westerman is a writer and former anthropologist. Her work has been widely staged across the UK and internationally, including at the Bush Theatre, Royal Court, Lyric Hammersmith, Birmingham Rep, St James Theatre, Criterion Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, and High Tide and Vault Festivals. She co-wrote for the collaborative stage play ‘Sketching’ with James Graham which debuted at Wilton Music Hall. She is currently under commission from the Bush and Derby Theatres, and recently won the Vault Origin Award, the Relish Theatre award, the In Good Co Mid-Career Commission award, a Michael Grandage Futures bursary, a Royal Society of Literature award, and was shortlisted for Theatre Uncut’s Political Playwriting Award. Her stage plays ‘Unicorn’ and ‘Puppy’ have productions in London in 2024, her first book ‘Happy Death Club’ is published in May 2024, and her first TV series ‘The Faulty Elephants’ is currently in development and was recently longlisted for the Funny Women award. She writes a regular column in the Guardian on the intersection of disability activism and women’s rights. She also runs the disabled theatre company Little but Fierce, through which she is currently producing a showcase for disabled emerging playwrights.