Slippery When Wet play as part of Dublin Fringe
SLIPPERY WHEN WET By Leanne Devlin At The Pearse Centre, Dublin 9-14 September 2023 6:30pm “I didn’t expect Love to show up at my dreary new job. Clean-up in aisle four!” Slippery When Wet follows the journey of an aspiring actor who, having returned to her hometown to work in a supermarket, is forced to face her complicated relationship with her hometown when she falls madly in love with a colleague. We follow this bawdy young woman through drunken nights, embarrassing encounters and ‘bad feminism’, as she debates abandoning her theatrical city dreams for Love (with a capital L). Slippery When Wet, written and performed by Leanne Devlin (Ireland), and directed by Emma Copland (UK), premiers at Barons Court Theatre, before travelling to Dublin Fringe this summer. Drawing on personal experiences of small towns, big dreams and being a bad feminist, Slippery When Wet, mocks the multiplicity of expectations we dump on our young people and tensions between the fantasies we sell them and the realities of life. Told through eclectic story-telling theatre,...
