Calm Down Dear 2018 at Camden

Published: 14 January 2018
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Camden People's Theatre

The fifth feminist theatre festival, Calm Down Dear, runs from 16 January at Camden People’s Theatre.

Racheal Ofori and Heather Agyepong’s So Many Reasons headlines the programme which has artists of colour in the forefront.

The Gentle Art of Punishment from Canada’s Daughter Product also looks at women’s roles as mothers and daughters whilst Vanessa Kisuule’s Sexy and Vanessa Macaulay’s Enticement Machine explore women’s relationships with their bodies and society’s expectations of them.

Also looking at women's bodies is Queen C*nt—Sacred or Profane? by China Fish which has two comedic female performers tell it how it has never been told before.

Enter the Dragons by A&E Comedy subverts prevailing ideas about beauty, sex and feminism in a funny show about the pressures facing women as they age.

Hannah Ballou returns to CPT with The Doctor Is In.

Works in development include Caroline Horton’s darkly comic All of Me, Muvvahood creator Libby Liburd's Temporary which takes a look at the increase of families in temporary and sci-fi feminist epic isychopomp by Maisie Newman.

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