Generator July 2025

Kinsman 
By Balancing Act Theatre Company 

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
16+

A 55-minute extravaganza of clown, performance art, physical comedy, 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 is light and fun with lots of laughter. 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, and most certainly silly and innovative. Thought provoking, CHICK-IN SHOW will stay with you long after you have left the theatre. Suitable for 16+, contains nudity and disturbing themes; sexual abuse, self-harm and rape. With an extract from, King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes, tr. Frank Wynne, Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2020. Copyright © Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2006. Translation copyright © Frank Wynne, 2020. Reproduced by permission of Virginie Despentes.