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"twitter:title": "Anatomy of Survival | What's On | Assembly Festival" description: "We are based in Edinburgh at Assembly Roxy, run Assembly Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour with the best of our programme." --- # Anatomy of Survival [**← **Back to What's On](https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on) [ ![Anatomy of Survival](https://assemblyfestival.com/_vercel/image?url=https:%2F%2Fassemblyfestival.pazaz.studio%2Fassets%2Fca660807-7802-4487-9b2f-20d03181429f?width=360%26height=360%26format=webp&w=1536&q=100) # Anatomy of Survival A woman walks into a café. She orders a coffee. The barista doesn't understand her request. The woman loses her sh*t. Chaos reigns. This off-beat collaboration between award-winning playwright Vivienne Franzmann, and choreographer and psychotherapist Frauke Requardt, brings together 22 very different eyewitness accounts of one everyday altercation to show how our nervous systems are stuck in the Stone Age. Performed by two dancers, an actor and a drummer (and one bear), Anatomy of Survival is a show for all the nervous systems in the auditorium. Come and feel the rise and fall of yours. 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