About the performance

"A wayward, fast-cabaret performance featuring a unique Lewis Carroll-esque collection of characters searching for meaning. A veritable Pandora’s Box of show: a rapping cyborg, a classical cellist or 7 wannabe Belinda Carlisles...what will you get in yours?

WARNING: may contain homemade costumes, puns and death scenes of a melodramatic nature."

Key Personnel

Rachel Brogan - Director
Sara Cocker - Lead Artist
Lydia Hirst - Lead Artist
Roxanne Moores - Producer/ Project Manager
Sophie Willan - Lead Artist

Production Information

Running time at full length: Approx 1 hour 30 mins

Suitable for age 13+

Medium use of text

Use of recorded and live music

Requires a clear understanding of English

Touring Information

Small scale show (up to 400 seats)

Appropriate for a studio setting

Number of people on tour: 9

Number of performers on stage: 8

Available to tour from January 2010

Suitable for rural touring

Outreach and Educational Work

Free pre-show public workshops with Eggs Collective open to a maximum of 20 women wishing to explore their creativity and the themes of the piece. Together, we will work towards developing a ten minute participant intervention within our live performance. The workshops will showcase the work of participants from around the country.

Company History

Formed in 2009, Manchester-based Eggs Collective is a female multi-disciplinary performance company. Providing platforms for artists to perform new work and collaborate, we have worked with over 30 women from a vaiety of artistic and social backgrounds at workshops, performances and public interventions. Building on a strong audience following in Manchester and selected by Contact as a partner company in 2010, Eggs Collective are developing our first full-scale show with the support of ACE, aiming to tour in 2012.

Recent Productions / Tours

For Contact: The Life & Death of Eggs Collective (07/11) See above for details. The Eggs Factor (04/11). Performance, open mic & audience participation for our 2nd birthday. Spitfires (04/10). A combined arts show inspired by female fighter pilots of WW2. Love Eggs (01/10). A 'fast cabaret' on the theme of love. For greenroom & hAb arts: March of 100 Dorothys (07/10). A participatory march through Manchester to commemorate Judy Garland and the Stonewall riots.
The Big Eggs Conga (10/09). A mass conga in the city centre.

Reviews

On Eggs Collective:
"An exciting, fresh and inspirational group of female artists who never fail to surprise and delight me with the talent, originality, humour and energy that they bring to all their performances, mixing a unique blend of theatre, live art, comedy, music and spoken word. I am sure that in the very near future they are going to be the name on everyone's lips"- Kate Pearson, Head of Programming, Contact, Oct 2010.

"Eggs Collective is doing something no-one else in Manchester is doing. By focusing on the development of women from a variety of artistic disciplines and providing them with platforms to collaborate and learn from each other, Eggs Collective is empowering a generation of female artists who are confident and comfortable working across art forms" - Fergus Evans, ACE Grants Assessor, Oct 2010.

On The March of 100 Dorothys (July 2010):
"Eggs Collective's approach to intervention-based, participatory work is certainly unique and captures a real zeitgeist in terms of both the audience experience and the media, resulting in truly popular, explosive and celebratory events"- Tamsin Drury, hAb arts and greenroom, Dec 2010

On Love Eggs (Jan 2010):
"Love Eggs simply blew me away. It was a performance that gave me the feeling that anything is possible" - Baba Israel, Artistic Director of Contact, Nov 2010.

"I was fortunate enough to see Love Eggs: I was totally blown away...an evening packed with inventiveness, verve and an eye for visual comedy. Eggs Collective are a gem in the crown of Manchester art"- Benji Reid, Artistic Director of Breaking Cycles, Dec 2010.

On Raw Eggs (June 2009):
"A performance of magic, humour and possibility...a source of inspiration and provocation...consistently playful and ambitious...a young company with a clear ethos committed to experimentation, creativity and shared development"- Baba Israel, Artistic Director of Contact, Nov 2010.

On The Big Eggs Conga (Oct 2009)
"Riotous and surreal...the sight of the entire audience dancing out of the building to the strains of the conga was unforgettable"- Tamsin Drury, hAb arts and greenroom.