FRAU WELT

By Oliver Dawe & Peter Clements

Hackney Showroom

September 27 – October 21 2017

“★★★★★ “A joy to watch” – ToDoList
★★★★★ “Sumptuously funny, Oliver Dawe’s perfectly paced narrative drama breaths life into this unique brand of drag meets theatre” – LGBTQ Arts Review
★★★★★ “Everything about this production is perfection” – The Ethel Mermaids
★★★★★ “Oliver Dawe’s direction is refined and nuanced, striking a highly effective balance between absurdist cabaret and truthful theatre” – Hiskind
★★★★★ “At once darkly funny and touchingly sympathetic… unique!” - QX Magazine
★★★★ “A piece of truly exceptional theatre” – Boyz Magazine ”

Edinburgh Festival

August 1 – 30 2018

“★★★★ “crafted with obvious skill” – The Scotsman
★★★★★ “a stunning genre-busting play” – Broadway Baby
★★★★ “dark, funny and completely mesmeric” – The List ”

Cast:

Peter Clements

Creative:

Director | Oliver Dawe

Dramaturg | Tim Crouch

Set and Costume Design | Joanna Scotcher

Associate Set and Costume Design | Amelia Jane Harkin

Movement Director | Jane Gibson

Lighting Design | Josh Pharo /Alex Fernandes

Sound Design | Owen Crouch

Photography | Holly Revell

The infamous, international shape-shifter Frau Welt tells her story for the first and last time in this genre-busting new play. In anticipation of her retirement, join the cult of Frau Welt worshippers to experience the egomaniacal Midas touch of this grande dame of the theatre. From Weimar Berlin to Broadway stardom, her secret is finally exposed. Unique in form, this one (wo)man play places the traditions and tropes of drag cabaret straight into the heart of a narrative-led drama.

Frau Welt is a genre-busting new play by Peter Clements and Oliver Dawe about the outsider and the consequences of a life excluded.