In a year when #metoo, gender pay inequality and the feminist agenda has rarely been out of the headlines, 2018 is an especially appropriate time for Gracefool Collective to tour their powerfully satirical Edinburgh hit 'This Really Is Too Much'.

And local audiences can see the show when it visits Edge Hill Arts Centre on Wednesday, 14 November.

Raucous, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, the four-piece have created a genre-busting show that reveals the downright absurd realities of life as a three-dimensional, high definition, water-drinking, salad-eating, moisturising W.O.M.A.N. in modern society.

In Sept 2018 the show won The Stockholm Festival’s top award, The Grand Prix Prize for excellence in performing arts.

The choreography is slick, the punchlines dark and the laughs constant, superbly written and fantastically performed’ ThreeWeeks *****


This Really Is Too Much is an outlandish, thought-provoking and wildly entertaining medley of absurd political speeches, talent contests, job interviews and box ticking;
its four performers, Kate Cox, Sofia Edstrand, Rachel Fullegar and Rebecca Holmberg, fight themselves, each other and society’s expectations for women to be individual, political, beautiful, popular, in control – and in their place.

"Laughing at systems of power or oppression in order to undermine the power they hold over us is one of the strongest forms of protest’ said Rachel.

Added Kate: "Our aim is not to point fingers, but to shine light on some of the ridiculous scenarios we observe in real life".

’A joy to watch… a gleeful, compelling piece’ Exeunt


Gracefool Collective is a four woman strong company of theatre makers formed in 2013, making post-intellectual-pseudo-spiritual-feminist-comedy-dance-theatre about the absurdities of modern existence. They aim to provoke, delight, and defy convention through irreverent physicality, sharp writing and arresting characters. Their work tackles serious issues while never taking itself too seriously. www.gracefoolcollective.com

The four Gracefool’s (collectively) say that ‘this show is for anyone interested in dance, theatre, laughing, crying, feminism, gender, identity, smashing the system, ticking the boxes, beauty pageants, political speeches, salad, moisturiser, water, turtle necks, disco, Steely Dan and/or Barry White’.

‘Comic verve and strong material skillfully performed’ The Stage


'This Really is Too Much' is supported through funding via CATAPULT (Llankelly Chase, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Spin Arts and Yorkshire Dance), Northern Connections (Northern School of Contemporary Dance), CARP (Barnsley Civic), Dragon's Den (OneDanceUK) and Activate Performing Arts.

Wednesday 14 November, 7.30pm 60 mins, suitable for ages 11+. See a short promotional video here https://vimeo.com/138058689