Monstrous Fix is a madcap new work about obsessive compulsive disorder, the rituals we build to survive and the yearning for certainty in an increasingly unstable world.

Charlotte Otton draws on her lived experience of OCD and her signature comedic style to unpack the absurdity, terror and strange theatricality of compulsive thinking. Through cabaret, confession and dark humour, Monstrous Fix asks are the compulsions irrational? Or are they survival languages for living through the real, ongoing threats?
Obsessions, intrusive thoughts and compulsions are deeply personal, shaped by fear, morality, memory and environment. What remains universal is the exhausting pursuit of relief - the belief that if we perform the right ritual, confess the right thing, or repeat the right action, we might finally feel safe.

As political conflict intensifies, climate collapse accelerates, economic insecurity deepens and we become relentlessly exposed to alarming information, certainty feels increasingly out of reach. In uncertain times, the brain searches for control. OCD offers the illusion of it.

The work asks: are compulsions simply irrational behaviours - or are they survival languages for living through real and ongoing threats?

At its core, Monstrous Fix is interested in the tension between daily horror and comedy. OCD rituals can be all-consuming, distressing and debilitating, but they can also be deeply strange, excessive and unintentionally ridiculous. This show lives inside that duality.