famehungry

Louise Orwin has read the writing on the wall.
Performance art is dead. (Maybe.)

Hoping to revive a generation’s faith in the live arts, Louise Orwin – the multiple award-winning, London-based cult performance artist – brings her smash hit theatrical experience about life, death, the future of art, the attention economy, and the online micro-celebrity to New York this January.

FAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nosedive into social media, asking what it means to be an artist now. Fusing performance art and very real and very live TikTok experiences, join Louise in a sisyphean mission to make art and find beauty and hope in the relentless, Almighty Algorithm-feeding attention economy. FAMEHUNGRY questions the lengths we go to be seen and what it feels like to be hungry for fame in the face of a world on fire.

To do this, Louise enlists famous Gen Z TikToker Jax Valentine (21yo, 80k followers) to guide her (37yo, 4k followers) through a brave new world of dance trends, 24 hour live-streaming, enforced face filters and endless monetizable content. The aim? To answer a very personal question: how can this performance artist compete in a dizzying digital age? Will Louise make it through the show without catching the attention of TikTok’s hyper-conservative censors? Will she survive her existential crisis? Can she – whisper it – make performance art mainstream? And will you ever feel the same way about social media again?

Anchored in Louise’s obsessive, gonzo-style deep-dive research and using a cutting-edge multimedia set up, FAMEHUNGRY is a wild ride through the TikTok universe for two simultaneous audiences - one in-the-know theatre audience, and one unsuspecting TikTok Live audience. Loud, fast, unpredictable, funny, and occasionally messy, this is theatre redefined for the brat generation (sort of).

“a portrait of humanity as it desperately tries to wring love and affirmation from the machine” - The Scotsman

“A vital presence… and skillful interrogation of how to make art in a world that feels like it’s being chewed up, swallowed and regurgitated as contextless slop” - Three Weeks

“Funny, inventive, and stunningly incisive… it’s meaty, knotty innards leave you reeling” - The Independent

'Like an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway devised by Marina Abramovic' - The Guardian

★★★★★ - Edinburgh Guide
★★★★★ - British Theatre Guide
★★★★★ - To Do List
★★★★★ - The Indiependent
★★★★ - The Scotsman
★★★★ - Theatre & Arts Reviews
★★★★ - Broadway World
★★★★ - Three Weeks
★★★★ - Adventures in Theatreland
★★★★ - GTC Wales Online