Physical Theatre Maker and Performer
Filmed and edited by Rosie Powell
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”…a visceral takedown of sexist social mores.” Read full review here
Syd&Sylvia will be at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. Dates: 5-7, 9-14, 16-21 & 23-26 August. Venue: Silk (Free Fringe venue 444), 28a King’s Stables Rd, Edinburgh EH1 2JY. See EdFringe website for more info. Please note ed fringe website lists different dates. Dates displayed here are the correct ones.
London preview date: *****ONE NIGHT ONLY*****
Friday 14th July. Hackney Showroom, Hackney Downs Studios, Amhurst Terrace, E8 2BT.
Tickets: £8
Book online or telephone 020 3095 9747
Filmed 06/12/16 by Katy Jalili. Edited by Paul Asher Frankl.
“This show is a face-punch right in the patriarchy…brutal, honest, uncompromising and urgent… one of the best pieces I’ve seen this year. Everyone should have a chance to see it” – Jen Smethurst, SPILL National Platform Project Manager & General Manager, Sh!t Theatre
Syd and Sylvia will be performed on Tuesday 06/12/16 at Carnesky’s Finishing School, Soho as part of a double bill with live artist Jo Hauge
6-12 Manette Street, London W1D 4AT. Doors open at 7pm for an 8pm start.
Tickets £5 in advance or On The Door
The year is 1987. Infamous club owner and compere Syd and his long-suffering wife, club singer and entertainer Sylvia, have been performing the same old routines at their Eastbourne working men’s club for 15 years. However, since taking up an evening class in Women’s Studies, Sylvia has been taking liberties with some of the material, much to the disapproval of her abusive husband…
Syd and Sylvia is a one-woman show about control, expectation and the crap that women face every day, told through gender bending, karaoke and bad jokes.
Previous audience feedback:
“…violent and harrowing and kind of raw. If we’re talking brush strokes, it isn’t light watercolours. It’s clay. It’s painting with a hammer. And I really, really love that.”
“Brave, funny, unlike anything I’ve ever seen”
“…Mighty Boosh with a strong moral compass”
Syd will be performed at Carnesky’s Finishing School ‘s pop-up venue in Soho on Tuesday 25th October as part of CFS’s Alumni shows programme, which runs on Tuesdays until the end of the year.
Venue address:
(Old) Foyle’s basement, 6-12 Manette Street, London W1D 4AT. Doors 7pm for an 8pm start. Tickets are £5 in advance, £8 OTD
