Eggs
associate producer
A dark comedy about young women trying to figure out who they are and how to exist.
Though friends from university, GIRL 1 and GIRL 2 are living very different lives. Now in their late twenties, the only things that continue to unite them are their struggle against society’s expectations, a love of 90s dance music – and a mounting alienation. Over the course of a year, the tension of this realisation builds and the wilfully humorous banality of their dialogues, so reassuring at first, begins to grate against a far more sincere and ultimately tragic subtext.
For this is a story about coming to terms with the absurd horror of one’s own fragmentation in a world. A world where the untimely death of a friend, IVF, pop- feminism, Scarlett Johansson, MDMA and Cher’s 90’s comeback album all chaotically co-exist. In the end, it is their friendship, however flawed, which rescues these women from utter abstraction. This play celebrates these relationships, for all their bickering and sardonic glory.
PRESS
★★★★★ “It should certainly be on your #MustSee list” Female Arts
★★★★★ “sharp, spikey and completely believable” West End Wilma
★★★★★ “Funny, feminine, and unexpectedly deep, Eggs is an astonishing piece of new writing” Grumpy Gay Critic
★★★★★ “infused with sparkling humour… the genius of her work is simmering away” Broadway Baby
★★★★★ “wonderfully written: unselfconscious, witty, sharp and perceptive” Adelaide University Union
★★★★1/2 “The satirical observations are so well-made that we find our laughter tinged with nervous self-examination at almost every point” The Reviews Hub
★★★★ “magnificent writing” London City Nights
★★★★ “quirky, witty, honest” Everything Theatre
★★★★ “hilariously lacerated by Keith-Roache’s searing, serrated-edge exposé of female twenty-something vulnerabilities and fears.” London Theatre 1
“honest, smashing,…a rare treat” The Evening Standard
Eggs played at VAULT Festival 2016 from February 24th to March 6th. It was produced by Orphee Productions. Eggs was published by Nick Hern Books in an anthology of the five best plays at VAULT Festival 2016. Eggs was supported by Arts Council England.
CAST
Girl 1: Florence Keith-Roach
Girl 2: Amani Zardoe
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Florence Keith-Roach
Director: Lucy Wray
Producer: Lucie Massey
Associate Producer: Hannah Tookey
Set Designer: Clementine Keith-Roach
Lighting Designer: Lucy Hansom
Sound Designer: Jon McLeod
Costumer Designer: Laura Ashley
Category
Theatre