Jeu Jeu la Foille's Frontal Lobotomy and Testy Manifesto

A double bill of two solo theatre performances; with spoken word, clowning, burlesque and puppetry. 

Jeu Jeu la Foille’s Frontal Lobotomy

Visual theatre and poetry, heavily under the influence of Tom Waits and with a smattering of weird science. Original beat poetry, tormented lullabies and woozy mythology are punctuated with scientific accounts of transorbital lobotomy and feature a toy shop orchestra of musical reprobates.

Jeu Jeu la Foille’s Testy Manifesto

Enchantress weaves words of inner resilience, recovery and revolution in a striking visual anthology. Strange, poetic and acerbically silly; combining linguistic acrobatics with evocative images to delve deep into the mechanisms of intimate partner violence and systemic misogyny. Victoria Hancock aka Jeu Jeu la Foille trained as a clown and mime artist and then became a poet. Her writings are beautiful melodies telling you terrible things.

'An utterly compelling artist' Fringe Guru
'Accessible yet fantastical' The Scotsman
'Joyfully bizarre' Theatre Bubble
'This potent mix of cleverness and hotness should be illegal' Barelesque

Suitable for 14+

All tickets include a £1 admin charge

Approx running time 2 hours 20 (including interval)

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