The Yard Announces FIERCE VS. THE YARD

In October The Yard welcomes two weeks of double bills featuring live performance company GETINTHEBACKOFTHEAVAN'S (Soho Theatre, Almeida) apocalyptic Frankenshow, and the UK debut of American cabaret star Erin Markey's sensual late-night show Boner Killer. Fierce vs. The Yard is a collaboration with the acclaimed Birmingham-based international festival of cross-art performance Fierce Festival, and marks Artistic Director Aaron Wright's inaugural programme at Fierce as well as the first time the festival brings work to London.

The first slot in the double bill sees acclaimed performance company GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN return with their first foray into digital performance in Frankenshow. Following recent successful productions at Soho Theatre and Chapter, Cardiff, their new show takes audiences on an odyssey of apocalypse that blurs the lines between human and robotic performer.

"Strips away all the illusions of theatre with a vengeful fury. Then it wipes the audience's face in it." The Guardian on GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN

This is followed by the UK debut of "magnetic diva" (New York Times) and one of Time Out's Top Ten Cabaret Performers Erin Markey. Boner Killer combines her signature story-driven stand-up with sensually scored home-made pop music in a fusion of comedy and cabaret. Already a well-known name in the US, these are Markey's first dates of a debut UK tour produced by Fierce.

Fierce Festival's Artistic Director Aaron Wright:

"The Yard and Fierce are natural bedfellows with their mutual interests in new experimental theatre and world class clubbing, and I'm really thrilled with the double bill of shows that we're presenting. Erin Markey is a Tour de Force in the states, and it's incredible that she's making her long overdue UK debut with us. GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN are quite simply the most exciting young theatre company in Britain, and I can't wait to see what they've been up to."

The Yard's Artistic Director Jay Miller:

"We're incredibly excited to kick off the season with a partnership with Birmingham's brilliant Fierce Festival, whose new artistic director is going to create a festival that pops into your mindseye like a beautiful gobstopper. It's an evening of work that's anarchic, queer, dangerous and really, really funny - who cares if it's theatre, performance, stand up, cabaret, or something all of its own. It's going to be a wild fortnight."

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