How do you continue to value yourself when society doesn’t value you? 

EXXY (Australian slang for, ‘that’s expensive, mate’) takes us on an epic and tender journey back to where Dan Daw began – working class, with very little.

Join Dan: A Queer crippled artist on the rise, as he transports us to the Aussie outback to talk about his imposter syndrome and fluctuating self-worth. With raw honesty and scorching stagecraft, Daw lays bare the pressure of success and the fragile balancing act of self-belief, asking what it costs to stay at the top of your game when you’ve always been made to feel on the outside.

In EXXY, Dan is joined by three extraordinary performers who move like him. Together, they echo, mirror, and multiply his presence, conjuring the tantalising possibility of blending in after a lifetime of standing out.

Visually provocative, emotionally fearless and threaded with humour, EXXY refuses to offer easy answers. Instead, it invites us into the contradictions Dan Daw embodies: bold yet insecure, triumphant yet uncertain, longing for community yet determined to be one of a kind.

Co-commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Battersea Arts Centre, Transform, Take Me Somewhere, and Tramway for the New Dimensions commission. Additionally co-commissioned by Fabric, Kampnagel, Sadlers Wells, SICK! Festival and Les Halles.
An Unlimited International Strategic Commission made possible thanks to funding from the British Council. Supported by Arts Council England and Cockayne 10th Anniversary Grants for the Arts.
Co-produced by Battersea Arts Centre.

Header image © Hugo Glendinning
Header image description: Four performers pose together on a dark stage, lit by cool green lighting. One performer sits at the centre in a chair while three others are arranged around them, seated and standing. Plants and scattered petals decorate the black stage floor. It’s a formal portrait-like composition.