FAMEHUNGRY

Theatre redefined for the brat generation

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 HOME 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).