Shine A Light Theatre bring their new show, Daddy Issues, to Camden Fringe next month.
“Daddy Issues follows Annie, a young woman teetering on the edge of despair, as she bravely confronts the ghosts of her past. While she navigates the labyrinth of her repressed memories, she unearths dark truths buried deep within her.”
Chris Falcon and Felicitas Kid from the company tell us more!
Where: Rosemary Branch Theatre
When: 13-14, 21, 25 Aug
Ticket link: https://camdenfringe.com/events/daddy-issues/
What are you looking forward to the most at Camden Fringe?
Apart from our own show, we are really looking forward to discovering fellow artists work.
A little fun fact for us is that the company that first gave us a platform for perform a monologue from Daddy Issues at a scratch night in 2022, is also performing at the Camden Fringe this year.
We’re really looking forward to see their newest piece Schroedinger’s Lesbians [by Themis Theatre].
Tell me about Daddy Issues – it’s about a young woman who “confronts the ghosts of her past” and deals with some difficult topics. What’s it all about?
Quintessentially it’s a play about love and being loved. We all want to be loved unconditionally. We all every now and then feel like we’re not enough. That’s what Annie goes through in the play.
As a grown woman she looks back at her childhood and her youth, trying to find out what she’s done wrong to lose her father’s love.
While reliving those memories, she uncovers a suppressed memory that changes her way of looking at herself. It’s a story about accepting and finding strength in yourself.
Shine A Light Theatre is a largely European group of creatives identifying as female or non-binary. How did the company start out?
We originally found together during Covid, still living in different countries – whilst we were all social distancing, we set up a weekly online creative meet-up, we bonded, and we became friends.
We’re all from different disciplines within the theatre world, which means we have lots of different experiences but also different strengths, which complemented each other.
We started working together on small projects after Covid, and we have so many things to come that we’re already really excited about.
You’re playing your show at Rosemary Branch Theatre – has that been a good place to further develop this play?
The Rosemary Team has been a great support for us while designing the show.
It’s our first trial run of the full show at a theatre, as we’ve only tried out parts of it at a scratch night.
It’s definitely a big step up for us, and we’re looking forward to sharing this piece of work – and curious to find out where this will lead us.
What’s next for you?
We hope to develop Daddy Issues further and bring it back for another run – but we also have a new play in the works that will focus on relationships and boundaries.