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Monthly double bill act from emerging and mid-career artists. This month features double bill of new work from Balancing Act Theatre and Athena Amoret.

Kinsman by Balancing Act Theatre
Welcome to The Market founded in 2006 for the trade and export of human emotions! We’ve got your glad, your mad, your sad and you’d have to be insane (we sell that on stall 34) to ignore these fantastic deals! Join the cast of Kinsman as they grapple with all that modern life has to throw at us whilst trying to buy their way to happiness. Modern life isn’t easy but what if there was somewhere you could go to buy all those pesky feelings your family and friends have been begging you to feel? Well, you’re in luck! Head on down to the market, invite only, in the car park behind the big Lidl!

CHICK-IN-SHOW by Athena Amoret
A one-woman, feminist, clown-theatre show, of a male chef preparing, roasting, and serving up a chicken. A 55-minute extravaganza of clown, physical comedy, performance art, dance, lip syncing, poetry, and audience involvement.

CHICK-IN SHOW, by Athena Amoret is playful, bright, absurd, and unapologetic. Highlighting the objectification of the female body, waking up to the patriarchy and the language that we use, whilst wearing yellow rubber gloves on her feet. The show centralises around the theme of Violence Against Women and Girls and although the topic is a serious one, the show flows between light and dark. Athena focuses on the language that she has grown up hearing referring to women and girls. This will all be done through being a chick, chicken and chef which hopefully amplifies the absurdity of the abuse women and girls face every day. It is in parts grotesque, uncomfortable, vulnerable, unique, silly, and innovative. You will be left thinking about the show long after the it ends.
* Suitable for ages 16+, contains nudity and disturbing themes: sexual abuse, self-harm and rape.