ThisEgg - A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here
presented by TRAVERSE THEATRE
7.30PM | 24th // 25th APRIL | £5 / £13 / £15 / £17
@ Traverse Theatre
10 Cambridge St, Edinburgh EH1 2ED
16+
Content Notes: This show includes themes of child abuse, queerphobia and censorship. It mentions death threats and suicide. There is swearing.
Access Provision: The show is text heavy; access provision to be confirmed. Venue access info is here.
In 2022 a show was cancelled while it was still in rehearsal.
The idea of what the show might be created a demand for it to be left unseen. A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here is a show about censorship and freedom of expression. This piece of theatre - part autobiography, part fiction - questions the limits of performance: what we make it for, what we go to it for and what we are willing to stand up for.
REVIEWS & AWARDS
WINNER: SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST 2024
★★★★ "...and it is from these long-ago burnt ashes that this show is, rather thrillingly, born...a celebration of expressing what you believe in despite the fear of how others might respond" - The Scotsman
★★★★ "This thoughtful and probing front line dispatch is delivered with an unexpectedly devastating theatrical swagger" - Lyn Gardner, The Stage
"a truly uplifting piece about resistance, survival and community" -Total Theatre Magazine
ThisEgg plays with theatrical form, often celebrating the here and now of a live event. Responding to the world we are living in, ThisEgg invites audiences to ask big questions and imagine into a potentially better future. ThisEgg's work is firmly rooted in the hope that theatre can be a motivational force for social change. ThisEgg aims to make people feel more connected.
ThisEgg’s dressed. premiered at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to critical acclaim, receiving a Scotsman Fringe First Award as well as a nomination for ThisEgg for Total Theatre Awards’ Emerging Company 2018. During the 2019 national tour, dressed. was nominated for a 2020 Offie Award for IDEA (innovative/ devised/ experiential/ atypical). dressed. returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2019. ThisEgg won the inaugural Underbelly and New Diorama Untapped Award 2018 for early-mid career theatre companies.
Lead Artist, Performed & Produced by: Josie Dale-Jones
Performers: Laurence Baker / Ben Target
Text by: Abbi Greenland
Director: Rachel Lemon
Dramaturg: Laurence Cook
Lighting Designer: James Mackenzie
Outside Eye: Paula Varjack
Artist Wellbeing Consultant: Nikki Disney
Photo credit: Alex Brenner