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Opal Fruits - Theatre Production
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Mixing UK Garage with unpretentious class politics, award-winning performance-maker Holly Beasley-Garrigan wants to talk about the fetishisation of the feral female.
Opal Fruits is an anarchic reimagining of the self-congratulatory solo show, and a wry interrogation of faux-working-class, cultural trends. It’s about class, nostalgia and five generations of women from one council estate in South London. The show explores what it means to be an artist who grew up in poverty... to have a stake in two worlds but to feel as though you don't really fit into either.
Recipient of the Pleasance and Bristol Old Vic Ferment National Partnerships Award. Supported by Arts Council England, Bristol Old Vic Ferment, The Pleasance, Knowle West Media Centre, Streatham Space Project.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
An often-spiteful piece, occasionally tender, aesthetically pleasing and very, very poignant.
Everything Theatre, as seen at Edinburgh Fringe 2022
★ ★ ★ ★
Humour fills the show
★ ★ ★ ★
A quiet slice of genius
The Wee Review, as seen at Edinburgh Fringe 2022
★ ★ ★ ★
[A] skilled, funny, angular performance
ThreeWeeks Edinburgh, as seen at Edinburgh Fringe 2022
★ ★ ★ ★
Bristol Post
★ ★ ★ ★
Breaking The Fourth Wall
★ ★ ★ ★
Plays To See
fizzes with feeling and love and anger and silliness
Bristol 24/7
An invigoratingly punk experience
The Scotsman, as seen at Edinburgh Fringe 2022
Beasley-Garrigan is an incendiary charismatic presence throughout
One of my all-time favourite shows
Paul Smith, Artistic Director - Middle Child Theatre
Truly one of the best pieces of theatre I have seen
Audience feedback, as seen at Edinburgh Fringe 2022
So refreshing...unlike anything I’ve seen
Audience feedback, as seen at Edinburgh Fringe 2022
Utterly engaging
Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor
One to watch
A Younger Theatre
About the performer
Holly Beasley-Garrigan
Holly is a Performance-Maker, Choreographer, Movement Director and Performer with a background spanning Theatre, Dance, Music and Live Art.
Concerned with re-claiming space - as a queer, female artist who grew up on benefits - she likes making anarchic work that seriously questions the traditional ways we’re permitted to create and consume art. Holly specialises in devised, site-specific, immersive and inter-disciplinary performance for unusual spaces and audiences.
Previous acclaim includes a Scotsman Fringe First Award & MTN Innovation Award for Fine Chisel’s Dumbstruck (2013); ThreeWeeks Editors' Award for Fine Chisel’s Edinburgh Season (2012); Best Collective Award for The Flanagan Collective’s Adelaide Season (2016); Vault Festival Outstanding Contribution Award for The Guild of Misrule’s The Great Gatsby (2017).
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