Following final yr’s acclaimed work, F**king Legend author and performer Olly Hawes makes a return to Riverside Studios this winter with Previous Fats F**okay Up – a darkly humorous, half autobiographical exploration of masculinity, fatherhood and arriving on the brittle edges of center age with desires unfulfilled.
At its core, the one man story follows an exhausted father, buckling below monetary and societal strain and residing along with his companion and two youngsters in a cramped ex-council maisonette. Instructed with each humour and tenderness, however shot by way of a grim, unflinching streak of one thing uncooked and unsettling, the play culminates in a shattering act of violence towards his son that forces brutally sincere questions of accountability and what it means to be a mum or dad – and a person – on the earth at present.
Directly each private and sharply political, Previous Fats F**okay Up confronts center age, parenthood, class and generational divides with wit, rage and honesty. A partly (although actually not solely) autobiographical hybrid of storytelling, stand-up and uncooked confession, which blends reality and fiction, and infused with the darkly fantastical, the present interrogates the pressures that form male identification, exposing the hole between who males are, who they hoped to be, and who they’re instructed to turn into.
Overarchingly, the story explores the delicate efficiency of masculinity – how males current totally different variations of themselves at residence, on the street and in wider tradition – and the results when that efficiency collapses.
Olly’s earlier present F**king Legend, can even be carried out at Riverside Studio for a restricted run of 4 nights.
Previous Fats F**okay Up will probably be taking part in at Riverside Studios between November 5 – December 20. F**king Legend will probably be taking part in on Nov 20, 22 and 25, plus December 4. Click on right here for extra info.
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