POLARIS Comes to Edinburgh Fringe

Tracy & Val are dinosaurs from different cultures. Aoife is a female astronaut leading a crew of distrusting males. Sarah-Jane & Lou-Ann are two teenage girls just trying to survive Year 10......

POLARIS explores the normalisation of hatred, toxic masculinity and the violence of language. The two performers create magical imagined worlds and beguiling soundscapes live on stage with a range of found instrumentation and objects - thanks to a brand new partnership with music-maker, composer, sound engineer and performer Graeme Leak.

Holly&Ted are a female and queer led company. They started as a collaboration between artists Holly Norrington and Teddy Lamb who met at Playbox Theatre Company, continuing their working practice studying at Dartington College of the Arts. They created the company out of a desire to bring fun and accessible feminist theatre into the community and this has now expanded to a wider and queerer understanding and interest in both the gender and theatre binary.

Say Holly&Ted of POLARIS: 'We chose POLARIS' themes as a result of how we felt about extraordinary world events since 2016 - Brexit, #MeToo, the election of Trump, issues with immigration, persecution of minority groups and more... This production is an exciting step up for us and working with Graeme is allowing us to develop and grow as a company.'

Holly&Ted is an associate artist of Playbox Theatre and a 'Spark Supported' Artist at Oxford Pegasus. POLARIS has been created with the support of Arts Council England and is produced by Turnpike Productions.