You Can Take Me Home Toni
A Toni Basil inspired theatre-cabaret extravaganza!!
Lorraine has a secret, an embarrassing obsession. And she is ready to out herself to you.
Lorraine is a massive Toni Basil fan and LOVES the Word of Mouth video album! Come pinball through cheesy pop songs, cracked memories, and outrageously honest and comedic stories of trauma and ecstasy. It’s clear this fandom is more than crimped hair and glitter spray!
Get ready for Avant Garde costumes, eclectic movement, lip synching and celebration, as we plunge down the spiral slide of tangled memories and 80s nostalgia. Yes, pop icons can really change lives!
This show fuses theatre, dance, lip synchs, cabaret, poetry, unique wearable art costumes, stunning visuals and ethical audience participation. Audiences will be equally entertained and challenged by personal stories that reflect the audience’s own bodies and (queer) experiences.
Emotive, comedic, at times shocking and confronting, but joyfully celebratory and uplifting.
Lorraine Smith Arts
Lorraine is an artist, educator, and researcher based in the North East of England. Lorraine primarily creates live performance that offers audiences a shared experience, sparks emotional responses, and/or challenges perceptions. Her work reveals the delicacies and complexities of the everyday, the weird and the sublime. Some of the work aims to ask provocative questions, whilst other pieces invite audiences into intimate connectivity with the performers.
Lorraine’s practice is collaborative and multifaceted, including movement, physical theatre, live art, costume / wearable art, spoken word, etc. Lorraine has been devising and performing for over 15 years and was the artistic director of Silversmith Dance Theatre (2006-2014). She has worked as artist in residence for several organisations and delivered commissions for Stellar Projects, FUSE Festival, Northampton University, among others.
Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam
From March 25 to 30, the Plein Theater and Cat Smits Company present the fourth edition of the International Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!
Since 2022, Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam has offered a stage to queer perspectives through groundbreaking forms of visual theater, object theater and puppetry. This quirky festival defies the norm with a motley and bold program full of exuberant, visual outburst from the Netherlands and abroad.
The theme of QPFA 2025, CREATING BODIES, challenges us to see bodies not as just given, but as something that is constantly being created, shaped and defined — by ourselves, by others, by systems and structures, both political and cultural.
