Birthday Fish Theatre

Birthday Fish

11 June — 13 June

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Comedy - Dance - Theatre / Performance

Two women stand side by side. Woman on the left holds a fish to camera and looks smug. Woman on the right looks bewildered.

Escaping the party presents a gruelling choice: endure existential crisis forever? Or learn to stay numb to it all?

Combining physical theatre with surrealist horror and cartoon comedy, Birthday Fish asks: are we all fish out of water?

Erin and Steph are Northern performers and writers based in London. They met whilst training in contemporary dance at Trinity Laban, and lived together for two years forming their now 7 year-long friendship.

Birthday Fish was born out of their desire to write and perform work that felt relevant and relatable to themselves and their peers. Erin and Steph brought their love for comedy, surrealism and cartoon characters together with physical theatre to explore the realities of being in your twenties, navigating life as a creative, living in a big city… and feeling like a fish out of water.