The Fems

18+

The FEMS: A garish explosion of flamingo monsters who come to party, to play and to destroy toxic masculinity.

This flock of glittering outcasts, fresh from the sequinned swamp, present a kamikaze cabaret and monstrous melodrama where THE FEMS – terrifying embodiments of femininity, take us on a glittering tour to show “sometimes it’s hard to be a Fem” and to show us the alternative is even grimmer.

A parent seeking advice from a minister about his effeminate son, a bacchanal Women’s Institute meeting and a text from a ‘neomasculinity’ blog THE FEMS skewer hypocrisies and hate with series of gleefully blasphemous and boisterous sketches while probing themselves and their audience for their own femphobia.

THE FEMS (which are “Fem”, “Femme” or any derivation that fills the glittering space in-between the poles of perceived gender) are a bouffon chorus of unashamedly evil clowns. They combine the skills of our collective (spanning performance artists to musical theatre miscreants), the fun and fierceness of our strange play, and the topical relevance of a world of bathroom policing and gendered Lego.

A singular riotous, vicious, silly choral piece musing on masc vs fem culture and the systems that labour to keep this perfidious framework in place.

“Exciting, interesting, daring, mad, bonkers, touching, and really bloody brilliant” Joe Boylan, Barrel Organ

“Slapstick simplicity… set the audience alight” House of Phag

“Serene, demure, and just a little bewildered” The Public Reviews