This practice as research project offers an approach to the creation of post-traumatic autobiographical performance, in particular the trauma of child sexual abuse,outlining a methodology that engages poetics in the creative engagement of epistemological rupture caused by such abuse.

Realms of knowing are positioned in relation to Miranda Fricker²’s conceptualisation of Epistemic, Testimonial and Hermeneutical Injustice offering how these interact with the compositional process to position 'nessness':the trauma essence situated outside of language as a valid realm of knowing guiding the construction of theatrical form and the performative Autobiographical ‘I’.

² Fricker, Miranda, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2007).

This project involved the creation of I Maybe Sometime (2023) a solo performance work for theatre spaces performed at The Dance Space on March 10th 2023.

The PhD is being conducted at the University of Essex in the Literature, Film & Theatre Department and was made possible by receipt of three-year scholarship.