Florence Keith-Roach's EGGS to Transfer to VAULT Festival 2016

They say that most crimes are performed by sexually frustrated men on a largely sugar based diet... I eat a lot of MAOMS. EGGS, by rising star Florence Keith-Roach, is a dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out. This intimate two-hander looks at gender disparity and the struggle of growing up as part of Generation Y. The production will play as part of VAULT Festival 2016 (The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN) Wednesday 24th February through Sunday 6th March 2016. Press night is set for Friday 26th February 2016, 6.30pm.

GIRL 1 and GIRL 2 are living very different lives. Since leaving university, the only things that unite them are their struggle against society's expectations and a dead best friend. Over the course of a year, the tension of this realisation mounts and the wilfully humorous banality of their dialogues begins to grate against an ultimately tragic subtext.

Writer Florence Keith-Roach, comments: "I wrote EGGS to try to examine the volatility and unique calibre of female friendship. I wanted to shed light on the complexities of these relationships, both nurturing and destructive, inspiring and draining, funny yet tragic. I believe that for women -- fighting for recognition in the workplace, equal pay and respect from men in power -- it is their female friendships, above all other relationships, which tend to endure."

This is a story about coming to terms with the absurd horror of one's own fragmentation in the world; a world where IVF, pop-feminism, Scarlett Johansson, MDMA and Cher's 90s comeback album all chaotically co-exist. In the end, it is friendship, however flawed, which rescues these women from utter abstraction.

EGGS is about young women trying to figure out who they are. It is about young people trying to figure out how to exist. It is a truly great depiction of the enduring qualities of friendship.

An early version of EGGS premiered to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015. EGGS will be published by Nick Hern Books in an anthology of the best five plays at Vault Festival.

IF YOU GO:

EGGS by Florence Keith-Roach

Wednesday 24th February - Sunday 6th March 2016, 6.30pm
Saturday 27th February and Saturday 5th March matinees, 2.45pm

60 minutes

VAULT Festival, The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN

The Vaults are located underneath Waterloo station (on the Northern, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines). Leave Waterloo Station via Exit 1. Turn right onto Station Road Approach and keep on the right hand side of the road. Walk all the way to the bottom of the road and go down the first set of stairs you come to and turn right at the bottom of the stairs. The entrance to the VAULT Festival is 10 meters down the graffiti tunnel on the right hand side.

Tickets are available priced £16, £12 concessions from www.vaultfestival.com.

About Florence Keith-Roach - Rising star of the London Theatre scene (The Evening Standard). Florence Keith-Roach is an actor, writer and director working across film, theatre and TV. Eggs, her second play, opened at the Edinburgh free fringe in 2015 and was described as Genius (5* Broadway Baby). She has written articles for Grazia, Little White Lies and The Observer. Her short film, Frenching The Bully, is available to watch online. Florence is the founder of Orphee Productions, a female-led collective dedicated to telling stories that challenge gender preconceptions.

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