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About
"I'm here with you too Germaine - lying awake at night and wondering where that last century went."
On the day The Female Eunuch is issued in America, a transgender woman in flapping draperies rushes up to Germaine Greer and says: thank you - thank you so much for all you’ve done for us girls.
Ugly Sisters is an operatic, heretic, parasitic and hallucinatory retelling of this very moment, of sisterhood, of all feminist history, returning to NDT after a blistering, sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe.
Ugly Sisters is the latest offering from multi-award winning company piss / CARNATION, following their critically acclaimed debut at Soho Theatre 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals (**** The Guardian, ***** To Do List - 'genuinely groundbreaking’).
Supported by the Untapped Award, Camden People’s Theatre, Judith E Wilson Fund & Shoreditch Town Hall
Quotes & Reviews
Praise for Ugly Sisters
★★★★ 'Ephemeral and thought-provoking' The Guardian
★★★★ 'Raw and riotous' The Stage
★★★★ 'Exhilirating, scintillating' The Scotsman
★★★★★ 'Brutally sincere' The Recs
★★★★★ 'Iconic, bold, and totally captivating' Binge Fringe
The Company
Credits
Writer/Performer - Laurie Ward
Writer/Performer - Charli Cowgill
Director - Joanna Pidcock
Movement Director - Naissa Bjørn
Set Designer - Cara Evans
Lighting Designer - Edward De’ath
Stage Manager - Daze Corder
Producer - Bronagh Leneghan
Technical Operator - Oli Fuller
Trailer by Chewboy Productions
About the Company
piss / CARNATION make sensory and fervent work about transfemininity which combines brutality, tenderness, abjection and glamour. Combining cabaret, experimental and verbatim theatre, they create "genuinely groundbreaking" (To Do List ★★★★★) and "brazen" (Guardian ★★★★) performances for stage. Their name comes from the German "pissnelke": the otherworldly and beautiful flowers that emerge from human pee on the sides of motorways.