Two English-speaking female comedians will be joining the uproar that is neimënster's Humour pour la Paix Festival on Saturday 20 February 2016.
Elf Lyons and Adrienne Truscott will be on hand at neimënster's comedy festival as the true personification of the idea that laughing at a problem can truly serve to tackle it. In this context, sexism will be humour's target with subverted gender roles as its hard-hitting arrow.
Described as 'One to Watch' by the Feminist Times, UK comic Elf Lyons' exploration of sexuality is at once alluring, eccentric, energetic and plain nerdy. Her endearingly awkward word vomit has earned her acclaim at a host of comedy festivals and solo feminist comedy show 'Being Barbarella' reflects her love for all that is "political and joyful".
A follow-up performance by Adrienne Truscott promises tentative titters. Adrienne loosens her trousers to undo rhetoric on rape and comedy, dressed only from the waist up and ankles down. Her 15 years of performance experience as an invariable circus acrobat, dancer and choreographer have made sure she is no stranger to capturing people's attention, and turning her hand to comedy has not changed this. Her thirst for genre-defying projects has seen her up-end traditional social, political and aesthetic perspectives and force audiences to consider the opposite.
Lyons' and Truscott's show, entitled 'The Laugh of the Medusa', will begin at 20:00 at the Robert Krieps Hall. Tickets cost 25€ at standard rate, 8€ reduced and 1.50€ with a Kulturpass. To book, contact billetterie@neimenster.lu or +352 26 20 52 444. The show is in English and for over sixteens.
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