Following final yr’s acclaimed work, F**king Legend author and performer Olly Hawes makes a return to Riverside Studios this winter with Outdated Fats F**okay Up – a darkly humorous, half autobiographical exploration of masculinity, fatherhood and arriving on the brittle edges of center age with goals unfulfilled.
At its core, the one man story follows an exhausted father, buckling beneath monetary and societal stress and residing along with his accomplice and two youngsters in a cramped ex-council maisonette. Advised with each humour and tenderness, however shot by means of a grim, unflinching streak of one thing uncooked and unsettling, the play culminates in a shattering act of violence towards his son that forces brutally trustworthy questions of duty and what it means to be a dad or mum – and a person – on this planet right this moment.
Directly each private and sharply political, Outdated Fats F**okay Up confronts center age, parenthood, class and generational divides with wit, rage and honesty. A partly (although definitely not fully) autobiographical hybrid of storytelling, stand-up and uncooked confession, which blends reality and fiction, and infused with the darkly fantastical, the present interrogates the pressures that form male identification, exposing the hole between who males are, who they hoped to be, and who they’re instructed to change into.
Overarchingly, the story explores the delicate efficiency of masculinity – how males current completely different variations of themselves at house, on the street and in wider tradition – and the implications when that efficiency collapses.
Olly’s earlier present F**king Legend, can even be carried out at Riverside Studio for a restricted run of 4 nights.
Outdated Fats F**okay Up can be enjoying at Riverside Studios between November 5 – December 20. F**king Legend can be enjoying on Nov 20, 22 and 25, plus December 4. Click on right here for extra data.
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