Celebrate International Women's Day 2017 with PERFECTLY IMPERFECT WOMEN at Ovalhouse

Multi-award-winning storyteller Danyah Miller's Perfectly Imperfect Women, part of Ovalhouse's imaginative and innovative Spring Season 2017, has been created to celebrate International Women's Day 2017 on Wednesday 8th March.

This universal tale tells the story of five generations of women in one family, as it explores what drives us to want to live perfect lives as mothers, daughters, wives, sisters, and bread-winners.

Perfectly Imperfect Women examines the complex relationship between mothers and daughters and the challenge of discovering you may have more in common with your female ancestors than you care to admit.

Join Danyah on her search for a richer understanding of the concept of perfection and what it means to accept imperfection in order to connect more deeply to her female line.

Writer and performer, Danyah Miller, comments, As we began to create this show I realised that I find it really challenging to accept 'imperfection', because I'm afraid that this will mean I've failed. I'm not even sure I can accept imperfection as an option. I've also discovered that I'm not alone in this.... this idea of 'being perfect' seems to speak to all the women to whom I've chatted about the show. It makes me wonder why we are driven in this way and how 'perfect' is different for each of us.

For their spring season, Ovalhouse have returned to their roots of home-grown talent, staging urgent, radical theatre that continues to inspire. Their Spring Season 2017 also includes:

Custody by Urban Wolf (28 March - 8 April, 7.45pm)

Another young black man dies in police custody. Apparently no-one is to blame. Custody, a play created by young black performer Urban Wolf and written by veteran Tom Wainwright (Banksy: the Room in the Elephant), is a contemporary fictional narrative about the moment a young black man's life is taken from him by the enforcers of a system that is meant to be there to protect him.

JOAN by Milk Presents (11 - 22 April, 7.30pm)

An earthy story of courage, conviction and hope, this is Joan of Arc. Packed with guts and heart, JOAN is performed by drag king champion Lucy Jane Parkinson, history's greatest gender-warrior takes to the stage, dragging up as the men she defies in this smash hit show. What happens when a disguise becomes something a lot more real and you have to fight for who you really are?

Eurohouse by FellSwoop Theatre (25 - 29 April, 7.30pm)

Two performers - one Greek, one French - dance and shout, cry and sing, agree and disagree, about life in the Eurohouse. Made in transit between Greece and the UK, Eurohouse is a darkly comic look at the EU's founding ideals and what got lost along the way.

Tickets are available priced £14 | £8 concessions

Available from Ovalhouse Box Office and www.ovalhouse.com, 020 7582 7680.

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