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PRESS & AWARDS
Performer of the Year, Sexual Freedom Awards 2019
VAULT Festival 2018 Highly Commended Award

One of The Guardian’s “Best Shows at the Edinburgh Festival 2018”

★★★★ “smart and audacious” The Guardian
★★★★ “relentlessly hilarious” The Stage
★★★★ Theatre Weekly
★★★★ Across The Arts
★★★★ Upper Circle Theatre
★★★★ Breaking the Fourth Wall
★★★★★ Excellent Show, Fringe Review
★★★★★ LondonTheatre1
★★★★★ Arthur’s Seat

Fran wants to fix sex.

No matter how many wonder cures she tries, how many trips to the doctor or offers of help from friends, she doesn’t feel like her fire’s been lit. sometimes it hurts.

Join Fran on this “relentlessly hilarious” quest (the stage), with songs, as she pursues a satisfying sex-life. expect toe-tapping tunes, a magic penis and a visit to sex camp. Oh, and dolphins.

Ad Libido explores Fran’s own experience of female sexual dysfunction, (which covers problems with sexual response, desire, orgasm or pain during sex), a condition affecting around 40% of women at some point in their lives.

Ad Libido premiered at VAULT Festival 2018, after which it transferred to Edinburgh for a sell-out run in Pleasance Courtyard, and then further transferred to Pleasance London for 3 nights in October 2018.

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer & Performer: Fran Bushe
Director: Ellen Havard
Producer: Hannah Tookey for Voxie
Composer: Ben Champion
Designer: Lizzy Leech
Lighting Designer: Peter Small
Sound Designer & Stage Manager: Annie May Fletcher