FuelFest: Beauty is the Beast

A work in progress

A first look at a brand-new satire by Racheal Ofori (Portrait, So Many Reasons, FLIP!) that explores the cost of beauty – from scalp-burning perms to injectables, from skinny tea to fat jabs. 

Yvonne is losing her mind. She walks into Boots looking for a shampoo and has a breakdown, paralysed by the abundance of oppressing plastic bottles. 

Mina has always kept a trim figure. Her mother’s ever present set of scales in their family home used to do the trick. Since her mother’s death, she’s finding it harder to keep the weight off. So she’s ordered some fat jabs online.

“I want to be wafer thin. So thin that at some point I practically disappear. Isn’t that the point? The literal erasure of women?”

Co-commissioned by Fuel and Women in Theatre Lab and produced by Fuel.

For details about FuelFest and the other works in progress, visit FuelFest at the Barbican

Scroll down to buy Pay What You Can tickets now.