Gutted was presented at East Gallery Norwich University of the Arts: 21 November 2024 - 8 February 2025.

Gutted comprises a script, performance, film, and audio-soundtrack voiced by Cush Jumbo presented within Ladybower, a large sculptural amphitheater, inspired by the two circular spillways which regulate the water levels in the Ladybower reservoir, and supply water to Sheffield. In an immersive journey which interweaves fiction and real-life events, the narrative of the piece explores gut processes, instincts, and ecosystems; from digestion inside our bodies to landscape-scale infrastructure and archaeological digs. Bringing to life digestive processes and encouraging us to consider how we think and feel through our stomachs, the work takes the idea of the hole as both an entry and exit point, a barrier between the inside and outside, it can be a portal between worlds — it consumes, and it vomits.

A special live reading of the script which I wrote with screen writer Alan Whiting was performed on Saturday 23 November by Nadia Emam.

Gutted was commissioned by Site Gallery, Sheffield and first presented in the exhibition IN-SIDE-OUT-SIDE-IN (23 September-22 December 2022).