Lotta Quizeen's SHELF LIFE Set for Brighton Fringe 2013, May 9-12

Shelf Life, Lotta Quizeen's Guide to Managing the Modern Home will play The Marlborough Theatre, 4 Princes Street, BN2 1RD, 9-12 May (£7/6) as part of Brighton Fringe 2013.

Performer Katie Richardson aka Lotta Quizeen brings you Shelf Life, Lotta Quizeen's Guide to Managing the Modern Home, a 50-minute participatory performance (for both men and women) and continues Katie's exploration of women's work/woman's lot. Try your hand at canapé-creation, fitted sheet-folding and dessert-making while learning new tricks (whether you're an old dog or not). Immerse yourself in the glorious world of trusty domestic tips and essential entertaining and culinary advice.

This new work is a one-woman show, written, directed and performed by Katie Richardson. Fresh from her Masters in Performance at Brighton University (2012), Katie is eager to discover the answer to a few questions. Together with Lotta, she is asking whether 50 years of domesticity have indeed altered the status quo. Her inspirations take many forms: the work of artists Bobby Baker and Martha Rosler, the delicious Eurovision and its song contest, notions of competitiveness, topical issues in politics, culture and sport and of course, popular TV/internet lifestyle and cookery icons, in particular, Martha Stewart, Nigella Lawson and the (almost) inimitable Fanny Cradock.

Katie trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama (a very long time ago) as a stage manager. diplomat husband around the world, acting in, directing and producing a vast array of (largely scripted) work. She returned to Central in 2008 for the BA in Applied Theatre (her dissertation examined the performance of domesticity) and completed her Masters in Performance in Brighton last year creating Lotta Quizeen and her work Domestic Bits (from which this show has evolved). Along with some private engagements, Lotta's next performances will be at the Battersea Arts Centre in their 'New to Edinburgh' on 2-3 August and TheSpace@Surgeons'Hall (V53) for the Edinburgh Fringe from 12- 17 August.

For more information, visit www.lottaquizeen.biz, email info@lottaquizeen.biz, or Tweet @DomesticBits.