The Camden Fringe Interviews
BXD OUT provides a teaser about LIPS
BXD OUT Theatre bring us LIPS, a delve into a love story centred around, hook up culture, grief, some very odd family dynamics and some very very self destructive behaviour.
The team had time to briefly talk to us about the journey of their show which runs at Etcetera Theatre between 20th and 23rd August.
Hi Lucy, so what brings you to Camden Fringe this year?
Hello, we are BXD OUT Theatre, a female led, bold and unfiltered, theatre company. Headed by Megan Walls, Maddy Hunter, Mariam Pope and Lucy Speer.
LIPS stars Megan Walls (also our resident writer), Felix Badcock and Josh Crook.
What can audiences expect?
Awkward giggles, a whirlwind romance and some very odd family dynamics. “Theatre hasn’t made me feel something in a long time, this did just that” was a quote from our Rose Bruford Symposium Festival performance.
Where are you playing?
Etcetera Theatre, Camden. A snug black-box theatre with a great pub to have a post-show pint in!
How do you want your audience feeling after they watch the show?
Conflicted – LIPS aims to present humanity in its purist and most unfiltered form. We want audience members to turn to the person sat next to them, and have a completely different take from the play. We want the audience to go on a journey with these complex characters, and experience their nuanced relationships, as they unfold.
You mentioned its been performed previously, has it changed much since then?
LIPS was originally performed at Rose Bruford College during the Symposium Festival. After an intense push to take the show further, we set up a Go Fund me to take LIPS to Camden Fringe and, we raised our goal within four days from those who loved it originally!
LIPS has since undergone rewrites and re-imaginations, and the company are excited to take what is, an already successful production, into something bigger and better!
What do you want people to ask you in the bar after the show?
We’re hoping they ask us what our drink order is 😉
Mine’s a G&T, cheers Lucy! You can catch LIPS when it plays at Etcetera Theatre between 20th and 23rd August. Further information and tickets available here.
