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Five performers wearing orange wigs stand in a V shape, against a green background.

24 & 25 Apr 2025

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Little Wimmin

Figs in Wigs

An unorthodox, apocalyptic, cosmically catastrophic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel.

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Absurdist theatre collective Figs in Wigs gave Louise May Alcott’s novel a proper spanking in this riotous production at Loading Bay.

Figs in Wigs are back (again) – and this time they’ve got their period (dresses).

Wild, irreverent and cosmically comical – welcome to the Figs’ live art feminist ‘adaptation’ of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Little Wimmin dismantles the traditional canon to make way for the doomed future of humankind. This absurdist theatre show asks how we think about the past, what’s wrong with the present and what we’re going to do about the future… If there even is one.

Prepare to laugh at the traditions of theatre and poke fun at people’s obsession with ‘the classics’ as the Figs use Little Women as their very own trojan horse – turning it on its head and mutating it into an unrecognisable cartoon catastrophe that talks about climate change, astrology and the infinite nature of the universe.

P.S. Beth dies.

Revelling in brazen, absurdist satire, outlandish performance collective Figs in Wigs do anything but revere the 19th-century classic... An ode to storytelling, and an anarchic glimpse of how much fun experimental performance art can have. ”
The Guardian
★★★★
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Co-commissioned by HOME Manchester and Cambridge Junction through the Stobbs New Ideas Fund. Supported by the artsdepot Creation Space Bursary, Battersea Arts Centre, Pleasance Theatre, Metal Southend, New Diorama Theatre and Queen Mary University of London.

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