Who Killed Eve?
A layered story experience exploring how blame, myth, media, and institutional language can turn a woman into the crime scene.
Not a whodunnit. A why-did-we-believe-it.
Who Killed Eve? reimagines Eve not as a symbol of temptation, but as a woman caught inside a culture already prepared to accuse her. The story moves through accusation, evidence, silence, memory, and public judgement to ask a deeper question than guilt: what stories had to exist first for Eve to be condemned so easily?
It is designed to provoke reflection as much as emotion, using narrative and poetic framing to expose how old myths still shape modern responses to abuse, shame, and credibility.
What killed Eve was never just one act. It was the story built around her.
The accusation
The story opens in the aftermath of harm, where language arrives before truth. Headlines, whispers, suspicion, and inherited ideas about women begin shaping what people think they know.
The evidence
Fragments emerge: testimony, memory, distortion, contradiction, and silence. The audience is invited to notice who is scrutinised, whose voice is treated as unstable, and what gets ignored.
The judgement
The narrative traces how public morality, institutional habits, and familiar myths can work together to produce blame without understanding. Eve becomes less a person than a projection.
The unmasking
The final movement asks the audience to reconsider everything: not only what happened to Eve, but what systems, stories, and cultural reflexes made her disposable in the first place.
From biblical blame to modern victim-blaming
The story draws a line between ancient archetypes and present-day harm, showing how the demonisation of Eve still echoes in courts, communities, media language, and everyday conversation.
Myth as social training
Eve is often remembered as the woman who caused the fall. This retelling asks what happens when that myth becomes a blueprint for how women are read, doubted, and disciplined.
Language as evidence
The work examines the words that quietly shape judgement: emotional, tempting, unstable, dramatic, difficult. It asks how description itself can become a tool of control.
Institutional gaslighting
Rather than isolating harm as one person’s wrongdoing, the story exposes the wider conditions that make disbelief feel normal and accountability easy to avoid.
Collective reflection
The audience is not asked to consume trauma. They are asked to recognise patterns, notice their own assumptions, and consider what cultural change might require.
A powerful starting point for dialogue, learning, and change
This is not just a story on the page. Who Killed Eve? is a creative, trauma‑informed workshop designed to help people feel and understand how systems, processes and public narratives can look and feel from the inside.
Like the other Our House experiences, it uses story, poetry and reflective prompts to create a held space for noticing. Participants are invited to move through the narrative, pay attention to how blame is allocated, and explore how familiar systems and structures may impact real people’s lives.
The workshop can be booked and commissioned for educational institutions, statutory services, community and faith groups, and public events. It works particularly well for staff development, values‑led training, awareness campaigns and community conversations where people are ready to think more deeply about language, power and accountability.
Supports values‑led training, reflective practice and awareness work around violence against women and girls, victim‑blaming and institutional response. It can sit within staff development programmes, away days or multi‑agency training.
Creates a held space for honest, facilitated conversation about shame, silence, gendered power and the everyday stories people inherit about “dangerous women” and “credible victims.
Offers a creative, trauma‑informed way into thinking about policy, procedure and culture. It can be used to support learning in schools, colleges, universities and statutory services who want to reflect on practice and impact.
Works well as a public‑facing event, talk or installation that invites audiences to engage with the themes at depth, rather than as a one‑off performance. It can be programmed within festivals, campaigns, awareness weeks or community arts seasons.
Trauma-informed delivery
This experience is held with care. We use clear content notices, grounding language and skilled facilitation wherever discussion is involved, so people can choose how they take part.
Content notice
This work engages themes of domestic abuse, sexual violence, public judgement and victim‑blaming. We share this in advance so people can make informed decisions about attending and how they would like to engage.
Choice and agency
You are free to step out, pause or engage at your own pace. You will never be asked to share personal experiences, and you are not expected to explain why you need a break or would prefer not to take part in a particular activity.
Facilitated reflection
Where used in workshops, include grounded discussion prompts, boundaries, and appropriate signpostingAny group discussion is guided and held by a facilitator. We use clear boundaries, structured prompts and gentle options for contribution, rather than open‑ended disclosure spaces. You are always welcome to listen quietly. rather than open-ended disclosure spaces.
Support pathways
Alongside the workshop, we provide information about local and national support services. You will be signposted to where you can find help if anything in the experience connects with your own life or someone you care about.
Explore all 25 doors
Each door opens onto a different chapter of the story — from rumours and evidence through to reflections, old stories in new language, and what we carry with us when we step back out.
Support information and links
Support information and links connected to domestic abuse awareness and survivor support.
Bedfordshire based services
Butterflies in Shades of Grey
The Butterflies in Shades of Grey programme is a comprehensive support initiative designed to assist both direct and indirect victims of domestic and sexual violence. This programme acknowledges the complex nature of trauma and offers a multi-faceted approach to healing and empowerment.
Bedfordshire Police
Bedfordshire Police and partners are working together to tackle perpetrators of violence or abuse against women and girls, including rape and sexual offences, stalking and domestic abuse.
BDAP
Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership offers information, support pathways and local connections for people affected by domestic abuse across Bedfordshire.
National services
24 Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline for Women
Helping women escape domestic abuse.
ManKind Initiative
Helping men escape domestic abuse.
Galop
Support for LGBT+ people who have experienced abuse and violence.
Bring Who Killed Eve? into your space
Who Killed Eve? can be offered as a performance text, an immersive installation, a facilitated workshop, or as part of a wider programme exploring violence, belief, shame and justice.
We welcome bookings and commissions from educational settings, statutory services, community and faith groups, arts venues and public programmes. To discuss dates, fees and how the workshop could work in your context, please get in touch using the enquiry form or contact details below.
You can also explore the wider Our House series to see how Who Killed Eve? connects with the broader project family. The series page brings together the other workshops and developing strands, shares more of the project story, and includes BBC Look East coverage from the 2019 tour.