Sat 20 March
2-10pm
Sad 20 Mawrth

A one day festival of live art created by a network of UK–based women artists, performers and writers. Factory Floor moves between an eclectic range of subjects, with performances running from an intimate 5 minutes to an hour.

Entry to all performances throughout the day: £12/£10/£8.
Afternoon (until 6pm) or evening only: £8/£6

Double Bill: Abi Lake & Caroline Wilson • 2pm
Manchester-based Abi Lake was the co-founder of Scarlet Letter Performance Company and the Factory Floor network. Her solo piece The Paper Dress was performed at Chapter during Experimentica 03. Her latest work, Elvis is my Mum delves into the family chest…
Caroline Wilson’s stand-up performance But I Just Want to Fall in Love and Work with Elephants is not about falling in love, or working with elephants. So what is it about?
"The lights go down... The music comes up...
The lights come up... And then what?"

Kerstin Bueschges: Date, Mate, Fake, Bake • 4-6pm
An exploration of internet dating via via a one-on-one encounter with ‘the woman of your dreams’. Please book your 5 minute slot at the box office 029 2030 4400.

Louie Jenkins: Moth • 4pm
Jenkins explores the fragile relationship between life and death, drawing on the experience of losing her wife from a brain tumour. Physical and poetic, this solo performance dances intimately amidst absence and presence, fact and fictional truth, Leeds United and a Ford Capri.

Clare Duffy: Local Reality Expo on… Market Road • 6pm
Edinburgh-based Clare Duffy is a playwright and founding member of Unlimited Theatre. Clare’s first full length play Crossings was a great success at Chapter in 2005. Her touring piece Reality Expo on… is made as a response to a local street in each host city.

"…a marvellous company which regularly creates productions on themes and issues that are unexpected." – The Guardian (on Unlimited Theatre company)

Emily Underwood-Lee: Patience • 7pm
"I grew some lumps, I grew some lumps, I grew some lumps. One was a baby, two were something more sinister."
Returning to Chapter after last year’s Experimentica festival, this powerful piece explores Underwood-Lee’s experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant.
Using personal narrative to explore universal themes, Patience asks questions about life, death, love, determination, motherhood and what it means to be a woman.

Lena Simic: Masha Serghyeevna • 8pm
Simic explores the boundaries between desire and revolution in this re-working of Chekhov’s Three Sisters; an engaging performance about longing, dancing, affairs, lost and unsent letters, soldiers, war, Moscow… Simic was one of the main commissioned artists at the recent arnolfini art and activism series.

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a note from Emily Underwood-Lee:

"We are delighted to invite you to this Factory Floor showcase at Chapter. We think of the day as a mini festival with a chance to catch new work from the seven women who form Factory Floor. We formed the group because we all felt it was essential to have a creative network for women solo performers/writers - a forum for exploring, sharing and testing solo work and discussion in a supportive environment.

Although we all regularly show work both in Britain and internationally we have not before attempted a day where all seven of us perform our latest works together and we hope it’s going to be a really great day. We want to spark debate about making experimental theatre, live art and political intervention and what it means to be a woman. It’s eclectic and breakneck. Have a speed date, meet Elvis and work with Elephants, move from life and death, to Market Road, gain an insight into being pregnant with breast cancer and have a post-Chekhovian lesson in love in war. Performances run from an intimate 5 minutes to an epic hour.

We really hope to see you there."