Raucous, Provocative THIS REALLY IS TOO MUCH Comes to The Fringe

Fringe debutants Gracefool Collective bring their genre-busting show This Really Is Too Much to the Fringe,revelling in the downright absurd realities of life as a three-dimensional, high definition, water-drinking, salad-eating, moisturising W.O.M.A.N. in modern society.

'Gleefully compelling' (Exeunt), slickly choreographed and dripping with feminist charm and anarchic wit, This Really Is Too Much combines dance, dark comedy and theatre. The four piece collective delve deeply into a world of farcical stereotypes and preposterous power struggles, wrestling with gender, identity and social convention along the way.

After (almost) 100 years of women's suffrage in Britain how far have we really come since then?

This Really Is Too Much is an outlandish, thought-provoking and wildly entertaining medley of absurd political speeches, talent contests, job interviews and box ticking. Kate Cox, Sofia Edstrand, Rachel Fullegar and Rebecca Holmberg fight themselves, each other and society's expectations to be individual, political, beautiful, popular and in control.

Why bring the show to Tye Fringe? 'The show is more edgy and political than our previous work and it's a mad mixture of disciplines' said Kate Cox. 'We make work which straddles theatre and dance, with a lot of comedy and absurdist images. what we like to call "post-intellectual-pseudo-spiritual-feminist-comedy-dance" so if that intrigues you, come along and see for yourself!'

Gracefool Collective is a four woman strong company of theatre makers formed in 2013. They make post-intellectual-pseudo-spiritual-feminist-comedy-dance-theatre for the modern day. They make it collaboratively, perform it collaboratively and write, design, devise, direct, manage, market, fundraise, budget, tweet, tour book, teach, schmooze, promote and play collaboratively.

This Really Is Too Much has been selected to be part of the second Underbelly Untapped season which supports fantastic new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

See a short promotional video here

This Really Is Too Much runs from 3-27 August (except 14) at Underbelly, Big Belly, 66 Cowgate Edinburgh EH1 1JX

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/this-really-is-too-much

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