Created and performed by Matthew Crosby, Corporare presents a gorgeously low horror sci-fi about a tech-bro and his rocket adrift in Martian dreams. Corporare is a kabarett extremis revealing the invisible corporate body in its colonising madness.

The complexity of a celebrity ‘founder’ entrepreneur who governs a company seemingly whimsically with little regard for personal liability or consequence for worker or the community in which they operate became the performance story of my research; the horror trope of alien invasion in space is for me delicious theatrical terrain. So it is that my Evan Task, boy prodigy, is faced with the (horrible) dilemma of outward invasions and inner eruptions. Corporare becomes a kind of retribution for wrongs done without remedy and tries to understand how, yes, male businesspeople can delude themselves so successfully.

“Hidden behind my veil, I am a corporate fiction… neither culpable nor accessible. Space though, is a storied frontier of delusions…