The Cockatrice is the mythical King of the Serpents. His gaze has the power to petrify all life. He kills the shrubs, not only by contact, but by breathing on them and splits rocks, such power of evil is there in him. He has the ... HEAD OF A ROOSTER! BODY OF A SERPENT! BEAK OF A PEACOCK! TAIL OF A DRAGON! WHISKERS OF A TOMCAT! WINGS OF A DODO! HUGE WATTLES!

COCKATRICE with IAN JONES REBECCA HARDY ANDREW WHITTAKER and HEDIA BAKAL ENNA CHATON AMENEH MAHLOUDJI MARYAM SHAHMANESH RICHARD SQUIRES PHILLIP WARNELL EMMA WILSON

COCKATRICE was premiered at THE SMALLEST GALLERY IN THE WORLD, Brixton, London 1996

[FILM]
MAN: Do you keep a night light?
WOMAN: Only baseball reigns.

[VIDEO MONITOR]
WOMAN: Huge Wattles!

[FILM]
MAN: Caca, filings, iron ore dressing in last night’s mother kept in a solid vase underneath the sink [BARKS TWICE] Make a salad! Treachery, lies and big jobs blessed with lists of soloop! Not the inability to feel but the ability to feel nothing.
WOMAN: Brown!
MAN: Nature’s chaotic storage space leavened out into a bready dough -
WOMAN: Brown!
MAN: - likened inconsequentially to a hamster pardoned!
WOMAN: - Brown, brown, brown...