A white woman with black hair wearing red lipstick is standing in front of a cloud-filled sky background. She is holding a half-melted ice-cream in her left hand and gazing upward in awe of something out of frame.

FAMEHUNGRY

Louise Orwin

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Time: 8pm

Tickets: Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £16)*

*All orders subject to a transaction fee of £2.

Running Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes (no interval)

Age Recommendation: 14+

This event takes place in person in our Council Chamber

A helter-skelter nosedive into TikTok, The Almighty Algorithm and the attention economy to ask what it means to be an artist now.

Louise Orwin has read the writing on the wall. Performance art is dead. (Maybe.)

Using very real, very live TikTok experiences, join award-winning cult performance artist Louise Orwin in a Sisyphean mission to make art and find hope in the relentless, almighty algorithm-feeding attention economy.

Enlisting the help of famous Gen Z TikToker Jax Valentine (22 years old, 81k followers) to guide her (38 years old, 5k followers) through a brave new world of dance trends, 24 hour live-streaming, enforced face filters and endless monetizable content, FAMEHUNGRY aims to answer a very personal question: how can this performance artist compete in a dizzying digital age?

Loud, fast, unpredictable, and unlike anything you’ve seen before, this is theatre redefined for the brat generation (sort of).

 

‘A portrait of humanity as it desperately tries to wring love and affirmation from the machine‘ The Scotsman

‘Funny, inventive and stunningly incisive… its meaty, knotty innards leave you reeling‘ The Independent

 

This event is part of Bloom, a programme of cutting edge performance developed at BAC. Bloom is curated by BAC’s Programme Producer Ella Gamble.

 

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Trailer

Please note: This trailer contains fast moving images and flashing content.

Gallery

Louise Orwin, a woman with black hair and green eyes, is sitting behind a ring light and phone on a tripod with a microphone on her right. She is wearing a bright pink tracksuit and is licking a rainbow lollipop while looking into the camera.
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A picture of the set of the theatre production FAMEHUNGRY. Louise Orwin, a woman with black hair and green eyes, is sitting at a table laughing into a ring light, phone on a tripod, a microphone on her right and a large Stanley cup on her left. She is wearing bright pink tracksuit bottoms and a green and pink corset.
Louise Orwin stands in front of a screen projecting three phone screens on social media. In the middle is a livestream of her recording herself with her phone; either side is a person eating an enormous bowl of red jelly on a livestream, there are various likes and comments from fans on screen. Right of Louise is a giant teddy bear on an office chair, on on the left a person in all black holding a guitar.
Actor Lousie Orwin kneels facing away from the camera, above her head she is holding a phone and flashlight being shone in her face; she is wearing a bright pink tracksuit and white socks. A livestream from the phone is being projected on the back wall behind her, and a large pink teddy bear sits on a chair in the corner.

Biographies

Louise Orwin

Louise Orwin is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across text, performance and video. She makes research-driven, often participatory, projects that ask what it means to identify as a queer femme in a fast-moving, media-saturated world that prizes patriarchal, heteronormative narratives. Louise’s work is cinematic, provocative, slippery, and generally filled with a heady dose of pop culture.

Credits

Written, Conceived and Performed Louise Orwin
Collaborator, Performer and TikTok Star Jaxon Valentine
Additional TikTok Cameos Arthur Jones and Ella Mary

Movement Director and Dramaturg Jenni Jackson
Production Manager Benji Huntrods
Digital Dramaturg Jason Crouch
Sound Designer AJ Turner
Lighting Designer Lily Woodford Lewis
Producer Cassie Catchpole

Access

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in our Council Chamber. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.

If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.

PERSONAL ASSISTANT/COMPANION TICKETS

If you require the assistance of a friend or helper to attend, we can make a free ticket available for your companion. You can book access companion tickets online or contact the Box Office to book by emailing boxoffice@bac.org.uk.

To book a free access companion online:

  • log in to your account here
  • go to ‘Other preferences’ and tick ‘I require a personal assistant/companion’.
  • Choose the performance, date and seats you would like and if you add at least 2 tickets to your basket, then one of these will automatically become free.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

There will be a Live Captioned performance on Saturday 16 May at 8pm. Live captioning by Euan Williams.

Content

  • Haze
  • Loud music
  • Flashing lights
  • Strong language
  • Representations of death and suicide

All performances will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.

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We want our shows to be as accessible to as many people as possible.

We offer tickets to most shows on a Pay What You Can basis throughout the year.

Tickets for Bloom performances in 2026 start at £9.50, and we have recommended pricing to help you choose a price that works for you.

We know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some. If you can afford to pay the recommended price or more, choosing to do so supports those that can’t. It makes it possible for us to continue to offer Pay What You Can and welcome those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend.

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