A journey back through the high and lows of coming of age and finding your own ecstasy in a less than forward thinking country.
“Remember when your religion teacher taught you about ridin’? And the school nurse told you to shave your pits?
Or here, discovering your clit the first time? Wait, you haven’t yet? You don’t wank? Women don’t? My hole they don’t.
Stick two fingers up and come with us on a journey back to your teenage self, to being scundered, to self-discovery, to abstinence- only sex education, to Northern Ireland: a country of wankers.”
Two Fingers Up was the smash hit of the 2019 Dublin Fringe winning the first ever Abbey Theatre & Dublin Fringe Creative Thinking Award and receiving a nomination for the Fishamble New Play Award. The show achieved 4 star reviews and the Irish Times said ‘the frenetic energy of the piece never wanes’.
Judges’ Pick Melbourne Fringe 2023
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‘This is a raucous and unapologetic celebration of female friendship and female sexuality’
SCAREDY’S WORKING THE LATE SHIFT AT THE CINEMA. TONIGHT’S SCHEDULE? THE HORROR MOVIE SEXUAL AWAKENINGS OF YESTERYEAR.
Lost in steamy recollections of Jesse Walsh dancing, Carrie and Tommy at the prom and the sinful duo of Ryan Philippe and Freddie Prinze Jr., Scaredy should be in ecstasy but evil horror host Count Calories keeps cutting in on the fun. It’s finally time for Scaredy to face their fears and stop being such a big Scaredy Fat.
Come to the movies with Scaredy as they poke fun at fat and queer representation in the horror genre, asking what it means to love a genre that doesn’t love you back.
We’re gonna need a bigger shirt...
Winner of the Les Enfants Terribles Award 2023 and the CQAF Theatre Bursary.
In association with Lyric Theatre Belfast.
Developed through Scene and Heard.
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Abbey Theatre/Dublin Fringe Creative Thinking AwarD
SkelpieLimmer were awarded the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Creative Thinking Award in September 2019.
“This award rewards an emerging artist of extraordinary promise with time, space and money to do some creative thinking. The recipient will receive €3000, workspace and scheduled meetings and support from the creative teams at the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival.”
Seón and Gina have developed a project currently called ‘Crushed’. This looks at the experience of having a crush when you feel too old for it, examining the period of growth between teens and early 20s.
They are experimenting with developing the initial idea in the medium of both television and stage show into 2 very different stories.
For Stage:
Styled in homage to a road movie ‘Crushed’ will see the two protagonists, now trapped in the world of adulthood, take a trip on a pill which frees them. Brought back to the temperament and honesty of their younger selves they begin to connect with the people they actually wanted to be and allow themselves to feel everything, all intensity, no shame.
For Television:
Ellen isn’t feeling well. She’s been listening to a lot of Taylor Swift, the old stuff. She watched Sex and the City 2 for the plot. She has a rash. She has palpitations. She probably has a brain tumour. ‘Crushed’ will trace the 5 stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression acceptance through the lens of an adulthood crush and a marriage breakdown happening simultaneously. Questioning what adulthood looks like, if certain adult choices are more valid than others and which ones lead to the happy ending (any kind will do).
The Creative Thinking Award is giving Seón and Gina the time and space to consider how the same story exists differently in every format. Taking a single idea they want to experiment with how and why we tell stories the way we do.