2019 NATIONAL TOUR

EGGSISTENTIALISM

by Joanne Ryan

Winner of The Lustrum Award, The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, Sydney Fringe’s Critics’ Pick Award, Best Storytelling Bouquet at Edinburgh Festival and nominated for Best Performance at Melbourne Fringe, Eggsistentialism embarked on a nationwide tour of Strollers venues in 2019.

Joanne Ryan’s internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning show was a funny, tender and moving exploration of reproduction in 21st-Century Ireland. Looking down the barrel of her final fertile years, one modern Irish woman went on a comical quest to uncover the ifs, hows and crucially the whys of reproducing her genes. Mixing animation with stand-up, monologue and hilarious recorded interjections from her mother, Eggsistentialism took a light-hearted but unflinching look at one of life’s most compelling dilemmas: should making a life for oneself involve making another?

“The piece, beautifully directed by Veronica Coburn, is close to a masterpiece: intelligent, thoughtful, wry, funny, and above all, loving.”  The Sunday Independent

“This is a well written and honest performance that will make you stop and think, as well as laugh with joy. Ryan gives a strong, powerful, comedic performance that lasts in one’s memory and opens the audience’s mind with her honesty.” The Reviews Hub