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🍭 Louise Orwin is officially half-way through her tour of FAMEHUNGRY! 🍭

You can still catch FAMEHUNGRY in Norwich, Exeter and Denmark 📱

Remaining tour dates below ❤️‍🔥
🍭Thursday 7 November - Exeter Phoenix
🍭Sunday 10 November - Norwich Arts Centre
🍭Sunday 24 November - Live Art Denmark, Arken, Denmark

📷 Clémence Rebourg

[Image: A production image from FAMEHUNGRY in which Louise Orwin is sitting with her back to the audience facing a screen. A bright stage light hits her. On the screen, it reads: "And yeah I know it's a priviledg to be on TikTok and to be able to do this as my job but really I'm tired of being on TikTok. I'm tired of posting everyday I'm tired of worrying about numbers and views and likes and comments I'm tired of the constant checking and". The Storytelling PR logo sits in the bottom centre of the frame.]

Tennesee Williams' classic play A Streetcar Named Desire, revived by Pitlochry Festival Theatre, is coming to Lyceum Edinburgh!

From 24 October – 9 November you can experience this critically acclaimed revival of one of the 20th-century's most iconic texts 🌟

🎟️ https://lyceum.org.uk/events/a-streetcar-named-desire

📷 Mihaela Bodlovic and Steph Pyne Design

[Image: Promotional image for A Streetcar Named Desire. A woman holds an empty glass up, covering half of her face. A man behind her turns slightly to look at her, whilst a pregnant woman watched from a doorway behind both of them.]

Welcome to the (near) future. Where romance has been “solved” by algorithms and Artificial Intelligence is commonplace.

Get ready for acclaimed theatre maker David Head’s Edinburgh Fringe hit, Distant Memories of the Near Future, to make it's London debut at the Arcola Theatre, Tuesday 12 - Saturday 30 November 💜👩🏼‍🚀🚀

Directed by Laura Killeen, this engaging multimedia performance follows five overlapping narratives from space miners to tech moguls, and briefly sees an AI performer join David onstage, as he examines the inner workings of hearts, minds and technology 👾📱💜

🗓️ Tuesday 12 - Saturday 30 November
🪐 Studio 2 - Arcola Theatre
🎟️ https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/distant-memories-of-the-near-future/

📷 Andreea Stanciu

[Image: Promotional image for Distant Memories of the Near Future in which David Head wears a purple jumpsuit and holds an astronaut helmet whilst standing in front of a purple backdrop, with sparkles and stars floating in from the bottom. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the bottom centre of the frame.]

STRUT is coming to Inverclyde next week for two live performances on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th October! 💃

From Feral Arts and Megahertz, STRUT performances are rooted in the community with familiar faces taking to the streets to celebrate dance in the local area. Dramatic lighting, catchy beats & stunning projections enveloping everyday buildings form the perfect backdrop for the neighbourhood to watch the STRUT procession. Snug behind windows or gathered on the pavement, it’s the ultimate ‘Are ya dancing? Are ya askin’?’ 🕺

STRUT will be taking over the streets of Inverclyde as part of Galoshans Festival, with a Greenock start point at Auchmountain Resource Centre, from 7pm! 🪩

Find out more: https://galoshansfestival.co.uk/event/strut/

📷 Brian Hartley

[Image: A dancer strikes a move on a street at night, with other dancers behind them and a group of people standing on the side of the street watching.]

👹 The Baddies opens at Lyceum Edinburgh this morning! 👹

Break a leg to the brilliant cast, and make sure you get your tickets for this brand-new stage adaptation of THE BADDIES, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s smash-hit 2022 story! 👻

🗓️ Fri 4 – Sun 20 Oct

🎟️ https://lyceum.org.uk/events/the-baddies

[Image: An illustration from The Baddies. A witch sits on the grass - tied up. Her hat has fallen off and a frog with a wand is popping out from behind her boot. A troll and a ghost hide behind a rock, watching and laughing. A young girl with long black braids walks by with a basket of flowers whilst a black cat plays with a worm.]

🪩 World-renowned drag queen supreme T***y Kaka celebrates ten years as a drag performer with a glittering book launch at Aunty Social tomorrow for T***y Kaka: Delusions From a Decade in Drag 🪩

Make your way over to Aunty Social tomorrow 4 October, get your very own copy of Delusions From a Decade in Drag, get it signed, and maybe grab yourself a glass of bubbly! 💛

[Image: T***y Kaka is dressed as a pink, rhinestoned cat - on all fours.]

🍭 FAMEHUNGRY's coming to London! 🍭

Louise Orwin's critically-acclaimed helter-skelter nosedive into the TikTok universe will be at London's The Place from 3 - 4 October📱

Get your tickets while you can!
🎟️🎟️🎟️ https://theplace.org.uk/events/autumn-24-louise-orwin-famehungry

[Image: A production image from FAMEHUNGRY where Louise Orwin wears a red tracksuit and is kneeling on the stage, holding a phone up to her face - with a bright light attached to it. Her face is projected live on the screen above. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the bottom centre of the frame.]

🎈 cheeky little brown is officially available to stream 🎈

Part musical, part drama, cheeky little brown is a profound, surreal & comic exploration of friendship, q***r love, & heartbreak, studded with snappy comedic intrigue & glittering prose from tiata fahodzi & playwright Nkenna Akunna ✨

Starring Tiajna Amayo as Lady - a determined, sharp-tongued charmer who loves her best friend Gemma, lamb doner & a good night out - cheeky little brown is a coming-of-age story that examines the friendship between two Black women on diverging paths of self-love & acceptance 💖

Available to watch on both the tiata fahodzi & Bristol Old Vic websites from 1 - 31 October
🎈 https://www.tiatafahodzi.com/
🎈 https://bristololdvic.org.uk/

📷 Craig Fuller

[Image: Tiajna Amayo stands centre stage with a microphone in one hand. Her other arm is raised proudly in the air. Behind her on stage are pink letter balloons. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the upper centre of the frame.]

💙 Celebrated theatre-maker James Rowland has embarked on a massive 50+ date UK tour of his critically acclaimed Songs of the Heart Trilogy 💙

What would you do with an hour? What if it was your last hour ever? For James the answer is easy: he wants to tell you a story.

James Rowland is embarking on his biggest tour to date. From October 2023 - May 2024, he will be performing Learning to Fly, Piece of Work, and James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show across the country.

Full Tour Dates 👇
💿 20 Sep - Harlow Playhouse - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

💿 26 Sep - Sheringham Little Theatre - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🪶 27 Sep - Norwich Theatre - Learning to Fly

💿 28 Sep - Norwich Theatre - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

💿 11 Oct - Northumberland, The Cheviot Centre - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

💿 12 Oct - Cumbria, Alston Town Hall - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

💿 13 Oct - Cumbria, St Mary's at Kirkby Lonsdale - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🪶 18 Oct - Enfield, Dugdale Arts Centre - Learning to Fly

💿 19 Oct - Bordon, The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🪶 25 Oct - Brinkworth Village Hall - Learning to Fly

🗺 8 - 9 Nov - Theatre Royal Bath - Piece of Work

💿 13 Nov - Croydonites Festival of New Theatre - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🪶 13 Nov - Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre - Learning to Fly

🪶 15 - 16 Nov - The Edge Manchester - Piece of Work

🪶 17 Nov - Gloucestershire , Westcott Village Hall - Learning to Fly

🗺 21 - 23 Nov - Edinburgh, Traverse Theatre - Piece of Work

💿 28 - 30 Nov - Camden People's Theatre - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🪶 6 Dec - Moreton-in-Marsh, The Redesdale Hall - Learning to Fly

🪶 7 Feb - Fareham Live - Learning to Fly

🪶 8 Feb - G Live, Guildford - Learning to Fly

🪶 13 Feb - Chipping Norton Theatre - Learning to Fly

💿 22 Feb - Exeter Phoenix - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🪶 28 Feb - Bristol, To***co Factory - Learning to Fly

🗺 1 Mar - Bristol, To***co Factory - Piece of Work

💿 2 Mar - Farnham Maltings - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🗺 6 Mar - The ShowRoom (Chichester) - Piece of Work

💿 7 Mar - Old Fire Station, Oxford - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

💙 13 Mar - Nottingham - TBA

🪶 13 Mar - Lowestoft, The Seagull Theatre - Learning to Fly

🪶 15 Mar - Crawley Hawth - Learning to Fly

🪶 28 Mar - Stafford Gatehouse Theatre - Learning to Fly

💿 29 Mar - Cambridge Junction - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

🪶 10 Apr - ARC Stockton Arts Centre - Learning to Fly

🗺 12 Apr - Corsham, Pound Arts - Piece of Work

🪶 13 Apr - Southend Dixon Studio - Learning to Fly

💙 17 Apr - Swindon Arts Centre - TBA

💙 18 Apr - Proteus Theatre Company - TBA

🪶 24 Apr - Barnsley Civic - Learning to Fly

💙 1 May - Nottingham - TBA

🗺 2 May - Otley - Piece of Work

🪶 3 May - Selby - Learning to Fly

🪶 8 May - Staffordshire, Foxlowe Arts Centre - Learning to Fly

🪶 10 May - Leicestershire, Stoke Golding Village Hall - Learning to Fly

🪶 11 May - Derbyshire, Bramwell Memorial Institute - Learning to Fly

💿 21 - 24 May - Theatre Royal Plymouth - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

💿 30 May - Sheffield Playhouse - James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

💙 31 May - Alnwick Playhouse - TBA

[Images: 1. Promotional image for 'Learning to Fly'. James Rowland, wearing makeshift wings created out of a rainbow of colours, flies above the ground, arms spread out with the wings and legs posed. 2. Promotional image for 'Piece of Work'. James Rowland, wearing pyjamas, is submersed in water and we can see his reflection above. 3. Promotional image for 'James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show'. James Rowland, wearing a hospital gown that shows his bare bottom, stands at the beach by the sea with a table holding a record player and a chair.]

Congrats to Olivia Caw and the entire JGProducing team for their spectacular run of Common Tongue! 💙🤍💙

Written and directed by Fraser Scott, produced by Jennifer Galt - and with dramaturgy provided by esteemed poet Leyla Josephine - Common Tongue explores the impact of language and identity in Scotland 🗯️

Congrats again for smashing your runs at Cumbernauld Theatre and Scottish Storytelling Centre ❤️

[Image: A rehearsal image from Common Tongue. Olivia Caw stands with her face pointed upwards, her arm holds a microphone up to her mouth.]

Tonight is your last chance to see Morag, You’re A Long Time Deid on their Autumn tour!

Weaving together silenced family histories and reimagined traditional music - a love letter to ancestors who ‘didn’t fit’ - this dynamic, experimental musical is told from the perspective of the Scottish diaspora, skilfully juxtaposing levity and tragedy, celebrating q***rness, while grappling with the question “What do we do with broken pianos, people and traditions?” 🏳️‍🌈

Catch the final performance of the tour at Bristol's To***co Factory Theatres tonight, 28 September at 7pm 💚 💜 ❤️

🎟️ https://tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/morag-youre-a-long-time-deid/

📷 Carlos Hernan

[Image: A production image from 'Morag, You’re A Long Time Deid' where Claire Love Wilson is kneeling by a wooden piano, holding a coat hanger with a paisley jacket and yellow feather boa hanging on it.]

The stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson's 'The Baddies' has its world-premier next week at Lyceum Edinburgh! 👻

"Meet the very worst Baddies in the world! Don’t you dare to come too close to a witch, a troll and an ancient ghost! The Baddies love being bad. They roar, spook and cast wicked spells to try and scare a girl out of her wits…who will succeed? Or perhaps the girl is braver than they think…"

Catch The Baddies at The Lyceum from Fri 4 – Sun 20 Oct
🎟️🎟️🎟️ https://lyceum.org.uk/events/the-baddies

[Image: An illustration from The Baddies in which a ghost and a witch stand on a bridge with a black cat, laughing at the troll in river below the bridge - who has a fish on their stomach - as a young girl walks away on the other side of the bridge.]

🗯️ Common Tongue opens TOMORROW!!! 🗯️

A brand new play exploring the impact of language and identity in Scotland, Common Tongue sees Bonnie - a young woman from Paisley -navigate her relationship with the way she (and the audience) speaks, coming to grips with the implications of her language, dialect and accent.

🗯️ Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse, The Studio
Thursday 26 & Friday 27 September, 19:30
https://lanternhousearts.org/events/common-tongue

🗯️ Scottish Storytelling Centre, Netherbow Theatre
Saturday 28 September, 19:30
https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5625/913:24706

📷 JYM Photography

[Image: Olivia Caw sits at a table in front of a laptop and microphone. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the upper centre of the frame.]

Morag, You’re A Long Time Deid tours to The Arts Depot, London tomorrow! 💚 💜 ❤️

Morag, You’re A Long Time Deid follows Sam, a Canadian, after she inherits her late Scottish grandmother's piano, and discovers an intimate letter composed of fragmented Scottish ballads that leads Sam to uncover Morag’s possible q***rness. This heartwarming musical show weaves together silenced family histories and reimagined traditional music - a love letter to ancestors who ‘didn’t fit’ 🏳️‍🌈

London 🎟️ https://www.artsdepot.co.uk/event/morag-youre-a-long-time-deid/

📷 Carlos Hernan

[Image: A production image from Morag, You’re A Long Time Deid where performer Claire Love Wilson stands by a piano wearing black trousers, a black top, and a yellow bandana around their neck.]

Join award-winning Jane Claire Bradley TONIGHT for an evening of weird and wonderful spoken word in The Dead, The Divine and The Diabolical to close off her time as Marlborough Productions' Q***r Amusements' first Writer in Residence! 🖤

The Dead, The Divine and The Diabolical explores themes of finding home and family; untangling bloodlines and ancestral lineage; and witchcraft, worship and what it means to be both divine and diabolical in places like Blackpool and beyond…

Catch The Dead, The Divine and The Diabolical at Bootleg Social tonight 23 September at 7pm 🤘🏼

🎟️🎟️🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dead-the-divine-and-the-diabolical-spoken-word-night-tickets-970344575747

[Image: A black and white image of Jane Claire Bradley on a stage with a microphone in front of her. She holds a notebook in one hand, whilst the other arm is raised in the air with her hand forming a fist. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the upper centre of the frame.]

🍦📱Louise Orwin's FAMEHUNGRY is going on tour!📱🍦

Catch the award-winning, critically acclaimed show fresh from it's run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! FAMEHUNGRY takes helter-skelter nosedive into the TikTok universe, fighting a grudge match with the attention economy 🍭

Taking place simultaneously in a theatre and on TikTok Live, Louise Orwin enlists Gen Z TikToker Jax Valentine to guide her through a brave new world of dance trends, 24 hour live-streaming, enforced face filters and endless monetizable content. The aim? To answer a very personal question: how can performance art compete in the digital age?

Tour Dates below ❤️‍🔥
🍭Thursday 26 September - The ShowRoom (Chichester)
🍭Thursday 3 - Friday 4 October - The Place, London
🍭Wednesday 9 - Thursday 10 October - UCLAN, Preston as part of Lancashire Fringe Festival
🍭Friday 11 October - Attenborough Arts Centre
🍭Thursday 17 October - Nottingham Playhouse
🍭Thursday 7 November - Exeter Phoenix
🍭Sunday 10 November - Norwich Arts Centre
🍭Sunday 24 November - Live Art Denmark, Arken Denmark

📷 CleÌ�mence Rebourg

[Image: Louise Orwin licks a lollipop whilst wearing a red Adidas hoodie, with the hood up, with a ring light, a phone and a microphone in front of her. There are four 5-Star reviews from Corr Blimey; British Theatre Guide; Edinburgh Guide; Theatreandartreviews and Getthechance.wales and four 4-Star reviews from The Scotsman; City AM; Ed Fest Mag; and Three Weeks pasted on top of the image. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the upper centre of the frame.]

"Some folk are happy tae listen tae thairsel speak. A cannae understaun that."

Common Tongue, a brand new play exploring the impact of language and identity in Scotland, opens a week today - Thursday 26 September - at Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse!

'A play aboot imperfect Scots’, Common Tongue is a fast-paced and quick-witted one-person show utilising projected creative captioning throughout. The show sees Bonnie, a young woman from Paisley navigate her relationship with the way she (and the audience) speaks, coming to grips with the implications of her language, dialect & accent.

🗯️ Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse, The Studio
Thursday 26 & Friday 27 September, 19:30
https://lanternhousearts.org/events/common-tongue/

🗯️ Scottish Storytelling Centre, Netherbow Theatre
Saturday 28 September, 19:30
https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5625/913:24706/

📷 JYM Photography

[Image: Olivia Caw crouches whilst holding a microphone, with a tense, angry expression and an open mouth.]

Dizzy by Olivier-nominated Mohamed-Zain Dada opens at Sheffield Theatres a week today! 🌀

A unique meditation on connection, loss, & memory, Dizzy follows Qamar, a 15-year-old maths genius who looks for patterns in everything. Desperate for answers following her brother’s death, she meets Stax, infamous graffiti artist & her brother’s mentor. Under Stax’s guidance she dives into the underground world of street art, navigating her memories through the art her brother loved.

Told visually onstage, paired with an immersive audio soundscape, Dizzy is a daringly original story of graffiti culture and grief brought to life using the lens of magical realism 💫

Dates below ✨
Sheffield Theatres, Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse
Wednesday 25 September - Saturday 12 October 2024
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/dizzy

The Hawth, Crawley
Saturday 9 November
www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/the-hawth/whats-on/dizzy

Half Moon Theatre, London
Thursday 14 November - Saturday 16 November
www.halfmoon.org.uk/events/dizzy

[Image: A promotional image for Dizzy featuring 4 images of a young woman wearing a peach headscarf, a red jumper, blue jeans, and red converse. Each image of her is positioned in a curve upwards towards the right of the frame. The smallest image of her features her hand reaching upwards, facing towards a figure that is blurry.]

Heartwarming musical show, Morag You’re A Long Time Deid, weaves together silenced family histories and reimagined traditional music in a love letter to ancestors who ‘didn’t fit’ ❤️✨

Morag’s death left a silence in her place. When her Canadian granddaughter Sam inherits Morag's piano, Sam also inherits the mystery of her Scottish granny's story. An intimate letter composed of fragmented Scottish ballads leads Sam to uncover Morag’s possible q***rness. In piecing together Morag’s history through their shared musical heritage, Sam discovers her own voice.

Find remaining tour dates for Morag You’re A Long Time Deid below 🌟
✨19 September Riverbank Arts Centre - Newbridge
✨ 25 September The Arts Depot - London
✨ 27 - 28 September To***co Factory Theatres - Bristol

📷 Sarah Darling

[Image: A production shot from Morag You’re A Long Time Deid. A person stands on stage, intimately close to the microphone, whilst holding a paisley jacket.]

Hebridean Treasure: Lost & Found combines Bharatanatyam dance with oral storytelling and Scottish and South Asian music and songs to explore Scotland’s 19th century Highland and Island lost spiritual landscapes 🌿✨

Touring across Scotland, you can still catch them at any of the dates below 🍃
✨ Tuesday 17 September, 7.30pm - The Corran Halls, LiveArgyll
✨ Wednesday 18 September, 7.30pm - Iona Village Hall Community Trust
✨ Thursday 19 September, 7.30pm - An Tobar and Mull Theatre
✨ Saturday 21 September, 4pm - Universal Hall Promotions, Findhorn Bay Arts

[Image: A production shot from Hebridean Treasure: Lost & Found. Kirsten Newell stands on stage with her arms raised, her fingers poised. Two musicians sit behind her, and a woman stands, as green and blue light is cast upon them.]

Summerhall's eclectic visual arts exhibitions are closing at the end of the week, Friday 20 September! ✨

Make sure you head over to Summerhall between Tuesday and Friday this week to catch work from Lucian Perkins and Alec MacKaye, Helen Denerly, Calum Colvin, Sam Kissajukian, Jo Coates, and Robert McDowell 🌟

Galleries are free and open between 11am and 5pm, more info here: https://www.summerhall.co.uk/exhibitions/current/

[Images:
1. Hard Art, Lucian Perkins & Alec MacKaye: A black and white photo image of a man singing into a mic as a young boy sings with him.
2. Flux, Helen Denerly: A scultpure of a moth made out of scrap metal from a typewriter.
3. This Living Hand, Calum Colvin: A room full of art supplies with an installation at the back of the room. Lights shine down on the sculpture.
4. Paintings of Modernia, Sam Kissajukian: A painting with a red background that is filled with small black images depicitng anxiety.
5. Restoration, Jo Coates: An example of restoration work, the painting of a man's face has been partially cleaned, revealing pink skin on one side versus the yellow tone of the other side.
6. The Medium of Madness, Robert McDowell: A painting including many images such as a shark, a cow, and a man.]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Playbill

TikTok (and stage) sensation Dylan Mulvaney's FAGHAG runs at Assembly George Studio 2 until 25 August 💋

FAGHAG is an hour of original musical numbers which chart Dylan’s life where she is now, being friends with Gaga and Rachel Bloom, embracing her authenticity and those friends who have stuck like glue through everything; all while looking inward - celebrating her girlhood and exploring her relationship with God having grown up q***r in the Catholic church.

Get your tickets now: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/dylan-mulvaney-faghag

📷 Marc Brenner

⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Stage

Taking a magnifying glass to our society’s obsession with death, or obsession with avoiding it, Crowded Room's new comedy OUTPATIENT runs at Summerhall at 10.30am until 26th August!

Based upon Harriet Madeley's own experience, OUTPATIENT follows journalists Olive as she delves into a new article about mortality, but is perplexed when no one on the palliative care wards wishes to speak to her. That is, until she is diagnoses with a life limiting disease of her own and implodes her own life: breaking up with her fiance Tess; breaking the law; and diving deeper in the article, leading her to find a moribund mate in the wild & beautiful Evelyn, who is terminally ill.

🎟️🎟️🎟️ https://festival24.summerhall.co.uk/events/outpatient/

📷 Harry Elleston

[Image: Harriet lies on top of a yoga ball, using her eyes to look to the side. Next to her lies a treadmill. In front of the image it reads ""Madeley is a terrific storyteller" The Stage" followed by 4 stars. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the upper centre of the frame.]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Corr Blimey

Louise Orwin's FAMEHUNGRY - a helter-skelter nosedive into the TikTok universe and a grudge match with the attention economy - runs at Summerhall until 26 August 📱

Flipping the script on the mentor/mentee relationship, acclaimed UK performance artist Louise Orwin has enlisted Gen Z TikToker Jax Valentine (20yo, q***r, 80k followers) to guide her (37yo, q***r, 4k followers) through a brave new world of dance trends, 24 hour live-streaming, enforced face filters and endless monetizable content.

The aim? To answer a very personal question: how can performance art compete in the digital age?

🎟️🎟️🎟️ https://festival24.summerhall.co.uk/events/famehungry/

[Image: Louise Orwin stands on stage with her back to the audience, turning so only her face can be seen. The screen behinds her reads "THE END IS COMIN" and in front of her it reads ""innovative, relevant, and alive" Corr Blimey" with 5 stars below that. The Storytelling PR logo sits in the upper centre of the frame.]