EGGS AREN'T THAT EASY TO MAKE to Play at Riverside Studios This April

Celebrating queer joy and the family we choose, Claire and Best Friend Dan make a drunken pact at a 21st birthday party - he will be her sperm donor if she's ever in a lesbian relationship when she's older. Flash forward a decade and Dan, in a relationship himself with girlfriend Naomi who doesn't want children, is ready to honour the agreement when Claire and girlfriend Lou struggle to find a donor. As IVF treatments, ante-natal classes and the looming realities of parenthood test the foursome's friendship and relationships, Eggs Aren't That Easy To Make explores our limits and boundaries, while highlighting the additional obstacles that LGBTQ+ couples face with warmth, heart and humour. 

Written by Maria Telnikoff (My Dad Wears A Dress, Nottingham Playhouse and All The Men Are Going To Hate Me Soho Theatre) and directed by  Lauren Tranter (With Nail and Without Nail Camden Peoples Theatre and Close Enough to Touch Theatre 503), Eggs Aren't That Easy To Make debuted at last year's Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim. 

Maria Telnikoff, the writer, said “it's important to see joyful, queer narratives (queer joy is radical!) and for queer people to have the ability to dream about futures involving family. The genre of rom com, so often the domain of heterosexual romance, provides a fun and optimistic lens through which a queer love story can be told.''

Big Sofa Theatre is a queer focussed, new writing company led by Maria Telnikoff and Lauren Tranter. They create character driven work with actors at the forefront of the creative process. Big Sofa focuses on the personal, the intimate and the joyful as a microcosm of the societal.