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Figs in Wigs: Little Wimmin

Type:Theatre Show

The Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 4YW

Tel: 01524 594 151

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Figs in Wigs: Little Wimmin

Figs in Wigs are back (again) and this time they've got their period (dresses) in a live art, feminist 'adaptation' of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women.

Wild, irreverent and cosmically comical, this production dismantles the traditional canon to make way for the doomed future of humankind.

Prepare to laugh at the traditions of theatre and poke fun at people's obsession with 'the classics' as the Figs use the story as their very own trojan horse, turning it on its head and mutating it into an unrecognisable cartoon catastrophe that talks about climate change, astrology and the infinite nature of the universe.

P.S. Beth dies.

'Revelling in brazen, absurdist satire, outlandish performance collective Figs in Wigs do anything but revere the 19th-century classic.  An ode to storytelling, and an anarchic glimpse of how much fun experimental performance art can have.'
★★★★ The Guardian

Co-commissioned by HOME Manchester and Cambridge Junction through Stobbs New Ideas Fund. Supported by the artsdepot Creation Space Bursary, Battersea Arts Centre, Pleasance Theatre, Metal Southend, New Diorama Theatre and Queen Mary University of London

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  • Sub-Regional AwardsPartner of Visit Lancashire Partner of Visit Lancashire 2018

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