As a queer foreigner, I felt like the roles I was seen for were few and limited – hence I started a theatre company, meaning I could now play anything without anybody stopping me – a cat, the People’s Princess or even Gwyneth Paltrow. After having missed the feeling of a live audience so badly throughout the pandemic, we decided to put the audience role central in our work. Our shows are not performed for the audience, but with the audience – giving each show a unique live feeling and ensuring the show is something we create together. We want our version of theatre to be something you could never replace with watching a film.
Mixing pop culture, puppetry, multimedia and said audience participation, we’ve found great success with our shows Gwyneth Goes Skiing and Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story. Both have toured internationally after selling out at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Gwyneth Goes Skiing played at Tobacco Factory last year – we had such a blast, so we are delighted to be bringing Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story to the venue this June.
In times like these we think it’s important to perform show centering around queer joy – having an audience coming together, laugh together and do work that is queer and celebratory feels needed.
We are due to open our new show The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)) at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. We hope to be able to continue to create fun pop culture-based shows and tour internationally.
But before that – Diana is coming to Tobacco Factory. Bristol is the first city (outside of the fringe) we ever sold out a show in and has been a special place for us since. The open, progressive, joyful and ridiculous people of Bristol are a perfect match for our shows, and we can’t wait to see (and perform with!) a Tobacco Factory audience again!
Posted on 21 May 2025
