Honey, you've got a big storm coming. For your safety, please follow this pair of prancing poofs to SHAME SHOW, a sketchy comedy of catastrophic proportions from SkelpieLimmer, the creators of Scaredy Fat and Two Fingers Up. Adam and Stevie are stuck inside. Storm Seamus is about to strike. The rural fixer-upper they've inherited can't hack it - and neither can their relationship. Channel-hopping their way through programmes of poofy-past, the couple confront home, happiness and heteronormativity as they battle the storm and each other's beliefs. A worthy First Fortnight Award winner at Dublin Fringe 2024, Colm McCready & Fergus Wachala-Kelly's hugely entertaining and poignant SHAME SHOW disempowers the negativity that shaped us and the fear we've been force-fed. TICKETS �16 | �14 RUNNING TIME 60 mins About the Company First Fortnight is a charity that challenges mental health stigma through arts and cultural action.First Fortnight hosts an annual mental health, arts and culture festival throughout January, throughout Ireland. The festival celebrates the arts as a powerful catalyst for sparking unscripted conversations around mental ill health and serves to challenge the stigma associated with mental ill-health. The festival aspires to make the beginning of each year synonymous with mental health awareness, actively challenging societal prejudices, and eradicating the pervasive stigma surrounding mental health. SkelpieLimmer is a partnership dedicated to making uncensored theatre that provokes change and starts conversations. We premiered our partnership at Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 with the award winning 'Two Fingers Up'. We have gone on to become resident Hatch & Scratch Artists at The MAC, Belfast for 2020/21 and are currently developing new work under the Abbey Theatre & Dublin Fringe Festival Creative Thinking Award. Our name is taken from the Robert Burns poem 'Halloween' and refers to a misbehaving child. We chose this as we feel it reflects both a sense of mischief and of railing against accepted authority, but grounded in the childlike fun of boldness. We are committed to creating joyful empowering experiences for our audiences. We understand that audiences crave escapism and don't always engage with verbatim displays of grim reality, no matter how much they may care about the issue. We believe that by tackling significant issues through comedy and play our audiences will find a much easier path into those conversations after.
