T0818003703The Orchard - Oct 4 at 19:00 - This is a performed reading of a script in development, with live music and song, and will be followed by an invitation to debate the work in conversation with the cast & team. Glamf*ckery! - Oct 5&6 - Glamf*ckery! sees a wax-job gone fascist, the women of FLAPZ magazine in all their glory, and asks ? how far would you go for the perfect selfie? All performed by a Lecoq-trained company. Cream Pie - Oct 7&8 at 19:00 - Cream Pie is a two-woman show about internet porn and its impact on sexual education, health, and relationships. Mixing together comedy with verbatim theatre, Cream Pie showcases the opinions of porn-consumers, academics, industry professionals, and the voices of the millennial generation. 40 Days of Rain - Oct 10 at 19:00 - 40 Days of Rain uses performance, comedy and music to tell the story of two unrequited lovers as they stumble through friendship, relationships and heartbreak into parenthood. In this intensely personal and autobiographical performance, theatre-maker Roland Smith explores his own experiences of misogyny, love and fatherhood. The Absolute Truth About Absolutely Everything - Oct 11&12 at 19:00 - A piece that offers a challenging but radically humane portrait of what it is to live in a society that is privileged like no other, but has a chronic poverty of empathy and what that means for the relationship between men and women. A Girl and a Gun - Oct 13&15 at 19:00 - This is a show about girls and guns. It's a show that asks two people to take to the stage and play out a film script in front of you. It asks what it means to be a plot device, what it means to be a hero, and what it means to watch. Expect gun-twirling, line-dancing, Nancy-Sinatra-singing. Badass Grammar - Oct 13&15 at 20:30 - Badass Grammar is a theatrical collaboration between a pole dancer and a guitarist, a composition in exploded view. With a mischievous agenda, the performance invites in the mucky subjects of shame, power & privilege. And takes them dancing.Presented byDreadnought South West (The Orchard). Presented byCreated a Monster (Glamf*ckery!). Presented byCrossLine Theatre (Cream Pie). Presented byRoland Smith (40 Days of Rain). Presented byOlly Hawes (The Absolute Truth About Absolutely Everything). Presented byImogen Butler-Cole (Foreign Body). Presented byLouise Orwin (A Girl and a Gun). Presented byRose Biggin & Kier Cooper (Badass Grammar). | |
| 4 Oct 16 to 15 Oct 16 | The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter :: V1892701352 listing details L02119454168 |
T2080390309Now in its third year, CPT's acclaimed Festival of Feminism is back, celebrating feminism and gender politics with a bumper lineup including Louise Orwin, Racheal Ofori, Emma Frankland, Milk Presents and many more. More details to be announced - check CPT's website for info. | |
| 15 Sep 15 to 11 Oct 15 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L502536628 |
The Fanny Hill Project - T0400642174Fanny's got a story to tell. But she can't seem to find the right words. Luckily John is here and, with the audience's help, he is going to tell it just right. With karaoke, high heels and a whole lot of sanitiser, TheatreState get to grips with accepted expressions of female sexuality. As pop culture and John Cleland's 18th-century porno Fanny Hill collide, TheatreState ask how far we've really come. Age 12+Company Theatre State. | |
| 23 Oct 13 to 25 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L898868699 |
My Big Sister Taught Me This Lapdance - T649149259"I am a lesbian with a shaved head and a hairy body. She used to lapdance in a wig and call herself Rosanna. She was my idol. She is my sister. We are feminists." Rosana Cade presents this intimate performance for one person at a time, which contains lap-dancing. This performance is part of an ongoing collaboration with Rosana's older sister, Amy, who has worked as a lap-dancer and in various roles within the sex industry, My Big Sister... was shown for the first time as part of Arches Live 2012, where it received a 5-star review from Mary Brennan in The Herald. Rosana is a queer artist based in Glasgow, who creates experiential performances that challenge perceptions of different sexualities. She is co-founder of Glasgow's BUZZCUT festival.Presented byRosana Cade. | |
| 13 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L373551282 |
Pretty Ugly - T507938205Pretty Ugly - After a summer in which trolling and cyber-bulling has hogged the headlines, this electrifying and urgent theatre event, developed on CPT's Starting Blocks scheme, now receives its full premiere. Louise Orwin says: "This show is about you rating me based solely on my looks. It is also about a recent worldwide trend of teenage girls posting videos on YouTube asking viewers to rate their looks, and about my trail of research into the world of the teenage social networker in 2013 to try and understand why." An electrifying and urgent theatre event, developed on CPT's Starting Blocks scheme and now receiving its full premiere.Performer Louise Orwin (Pretty Ugly). Performer Bridget Christie. Performer Hannah Nicklin. Performer Kate Craddock. Performer Sara Pascoe. Performer Amanda Monfrooe. Performer Racheal Ofori. Performer Rosana Cade. Performer Alan Bissett. Performer Sabrina Mahfouz. Performer Figs in Wigs. Performer Rosie Wilby. Performer Lucy Hutson. Performer Martha Mosse. | |
| 23 Oct 13 to 9 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L445647255 |
Beta Public - T1007951330London's only night of videogames and performance returns, in a special edition exploring feminism and gaming. Expect a lineup of unique and challenging games, provocative talks and hair-raising performance. Curated by Thomas Martin and Pat Ashe. | |
| 8 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L01256686843 |
The Feminine Heavy - T0862913857Sara has done bits of stand up about image, the media, boobs, adolescence, sex-drive and Chantelle Houghton before, but never in one whopping show all about her female experience. And she never will again. So come and see this one. Sara has starred on the BBC's Live at the Apollo, C4's Stand Up for the Week and Live at the Comedy Store on Comedy Central - ad she presented her theatre piece Emily's Very Sad Play as part of CPT's Beyond the Joke festival (January, 2013). | |
| 7 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L01742624138 |
We Object - T1480482056We, Object is an absurdist amalgamation of visual puns , wordplay and amateur dancing that deals with objects, objectification and objection. It begins with a slide show and ends with a dance routine. The middle is somewhat embarrassing and a plethora of miniature props begin to complicate the bigger picture. As the show progresses it becomes increasingly unclear as to who (or what) is (or isn't) being objectified. Figs in Wigs are five women placing themselves in the spotlight, using comedy to highlight something so frequently laughed off. Or perhaps its just a show about small things. | |
| 6 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L922444931 |
Ban This Filth! - T01515593843Award-winning writer/performer Alan Bissett explores the work of Andrea Dworkin, late and controversial radical feminist, in his new solo show discussing pornography and misogyny. Cautiously walking the minefield of male feminism, Ban This Filth! pits Dworkin's words against Bissett's life, challenging some of the assumptions we make about gender. Has porn shaped contemporary masculinity? Has the rise of ?pro-sex' feminism superceded Dworkin's work? Look out for awkward questions, laughter, Led Zeppelin and the live, on-stage reconditioning of a man who's had it all too easy. Until now.Presented byAlan Bissett. Presented bySacha Kyle. | |
| 5 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L1209844028 |
Short Films Night - Curated by Under-Wire Festival - T0526573602The UnderWire festival - with which CPT is partnering on Calm Down, Dear - launched in 2010 with the belief that women working in the UK film industry needed more encouragement and a bigger platform for their work. UnderWire looks to recognise the best short work made by women across a range of crafts - from director to cinematographer; screenwriter to editor. Tonight, UnderWire producer Chloe Trayner is curating a bespoke, for-one-night-only bill of feminist short films for Calm Down, Dear. | |
| 3 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L01189126543 |
The GB Project - T0121030684An epic tale told on an intimate scale inspired by maverick British adventurer Gertrude Bell. The GB Project is a powerful and insightful look at the impact of one woman on the shaping of modern day Iraq. "Simply told, beautifully performed...an important piece of theatre" (Total Theatre) The GB Project fuses fragments of text gathered from diaries, letters and biographies, alongside contemporary voices and speeches to raise questions about history, legacy, loyalty and love. "Craddock's dazzling performance" (Exeunt) created in collaboration with award-winning writer and director Steve Gilroy and musician Richard Dawson is "impossible to forget" (Exeunt).Presented byKate Craddock. Presented bySteve Gilroy. | |
| 29 Oct 13 to 30 Oct 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L0354881457 |
Portrait - T01088935559"I know it's said that money doesn't buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Porsche than at a bus stop." Straight-talking and yet endearing, Portrait explores modern issues neatly tied with humour. An engaging one-woman show, with music, dance and the odd satirical joke, it strikes a chord with everyone. Racheal has performed poetry across London as well as New York. In this solo show, first performed at CPT as part of Camden Fringe, she takes an audience on a journey challenging perceptions using caricatures, familiar and unfamiliar. | |
| 29 Oct 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L839742040 |
A Bic for Her - T0118316390CPT are very proud to present Bridget Christie's critically acclaimed smash hit show A Bic For Her. Fresh from winning the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013, Bridget is performing at CPT for one night only! Why does Bic think women need special biros to write with? Who decided Thatcher and Beyonce were feminist icons? What did Sir Stirling Moss say about women's brains? This show includes some shouting. (The only stand-up to have been billed alongside both Lionel Blair and Naomi Wolf.)Presented byBridget Christie. | |
| 27 Oct 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L01757938275 |
Poke - T01688026729This time A. would abandon ambivalence and - for the first time ever - take to the stage to say something true. And without the postmodern veil of irony! She would speak to the tragic state of womankind. But she fucked it up. Poke, a new spoken word piece with puppets and pop, is the confession of a failed feminist propagandist. Poke is the winner of the Arches Platform 18 Award 2013. Amanda is a US-born, UK-based performance maker, and from 2011-12 she was an artistic associate of the National Theatre of Scotland.Presented byAmanda Monfrooe. | |
| 26 Oct 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L1237838766 |
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| 23 Oct 13 to 10 Nov 13 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L49286017 |
