Fringe favourite heads out on national tour this autumn
Fringe First award-winner Joe Sellman-Leava (Labels; Monster) is heading out on a national tour with his hit Edinburgh Fringe show Fanboy. This love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia explores our past and future selves through epic storytelling, razor-sharp impressions, and theatrical magic.
Joe’s teen obsessions with Nintendo, Star Wars and A Muppets Christmas Carol have continued into his thirties. But he’s started to notice something about the way certain fans are behaving-- something unsettling. Fanboy doesn’t just question our love for superheroes: it also considers the fandom of political figures and the protectionism that can build around certain icons, and the language and responses that are then generated online.
This innovative, multi-disciplinary show examines loneliness, mental health, and how men often use pop culture and fandom to form connections and process emotions. Sellman-Leava, with director Yaz Al Shaater (Dead Reckoning, Young Vic; Boris: World King, Trafalgar Studios), asks us to consider the very nature of fandom and what happens to our childhood obsessions over time, how we can sometimes feel safer in our childhood memories, hiding from the world.
Tour Dates
- Proteus Creation Space, Basingstoke: Saturday 28th October
- Lighthouse, Poole: Thursday 2nd November
- The Old Woollen, Leeds: Tuesday 7th November
- The Lowry, Salford: Thursday 9th November
- The Civic, Barnsley: Saturday 11th November
- Cambridge Junction, Cambridge: Thursday 16th November
- Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford: Wednesday 13th December
FANBOY: Thursday 7th October – Wednesday 13th December, 2023, 8pm
Further Information: Fanboy at Proteus Creation Space event tickets from TicketSource