Corset Story is a fun cabaret in which SELF&SOSSI explore the restraint and liberation imposed by corsetry through provocative love songs, piano, ukuleles, stories and physical theatre. Throughout history, corsets have been a significant piece of clothing, representing a void between patriarchy and feminism.

Audience feedback from performances at The Merlin Theatre, Frome and The Glitch, London.

"Self & Sossi have chosen the genre of Cabaret Opera as a container to bring together their different performance disciplines. Both performers have a passion for challenging gender stereotypes and promoting gender fluidity. At first glance the corset may be seen as a symbol of constraint and anti-feminism yet through the facets of constriction liberation can appear. Self & Sossi explore the bigger picture of gender in balance through touching autoethnography and their own physicality."

"Corset Story, an original piece of theatre written and performed by by Marina Sossi and Susie Self, is a kaleidoscope of original music, movement, historical vignette and personal reflection, bound together by the central theme of how the corset-like restraint of femininity-myths have shaped women's lives, and their roles in the creative industries. "

"Corset Story is richly inventive moving, funny, enlightening and thought-provoking Its heroines: performance artist Marina Sossi and composer/conductor Susie Self, are remarkably talented artists, who’ve unlaced their corsets, broken the mould, and dared to be all that they are."