SCRAPS Debuts at Tobacco Factory Theatres

Debut performance of new show explores how cost of living affects Bristol creatives

Brand new satire SCRAPS, which explores the struggles of being a creative in the cost of living crisis, comes to Tobacco Factory Theatres this June.

It’s been created by Bristol-based Mia Macleod and Daisy Kennedy, who have been making theatre together since meeting in university halls in 2015.

The show is a semi-autobiographical piece of work, forging dance, clowning, lipsync and comedy into one big entertaining bundle. It’s going to be close to the bone. Post Covid, huge changes to the way the arts are funded in England and Bristol has shaken the core of the industry.

Finding themselves in a class-based hold, they question in the show if they should give up and get a ‘real job’.

SCRAPS was originally born from the Blueprint programme that runs out of Tobacco Factory Theatres itself. It’s one of the theatre’s innovative training programmes, this one for emerging producers.

The pair have now been invited back to the south Bristol theatre to stage the debut of the show’s first full-length performance.

“We have different class backgrounds and when creating a show surrounded by the cost of living crisis, we realised it was something we couldn’t just jump over,” the pair said ahead of the show’s date next month.

“By doing that we dismiss a huge chunk of our lives and identities, but it’s not as simple as working class or middle class and we wanted to pick apart that conversation within our work. The characters in SCRAPS are dramatised versions of ourselves; we have interrogated our own identities and magnified the expectations that may be put onto us dependent on our class bracket.”

“The term ‘we do it because we love it’ is thrown around so often but when you just can’t afford to do it anymore, this can bring unwanted thoughts of self doubt: ‘am I not getting work because I’m not good enough?’ ‘is all the time and stress worth it?’ which can lead to so many amazing performers, writers and creatives having to leave the industry.”

SCRAPS will be at Tobacco Factory Theatres on 13 June 2024

For more information or to book: https://tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/scraps/

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