Following their hit shows In Our Hands and CELL, celebrated puppetry company Smoking Apples are bringing their new acclaimed show Flux to Stantonbury Theatre on Wednesday (June 12).
The show tells the story of Kate, a young physicist working in the male-dominated world of science in the 1980s.
Inspired by interviews with female scientists, the show follows her as, burning with potential, she struggles to be noticed until a male colleague uncovers her brilliance and pushes her forward.
But just as Kate begins to excel professionally, the balance between life and work suddenly flips.
Smoking Apples use extraordinary life-size puppetry, an electrifying set of shadow and light and a filmic score to tell Kate’s story as she navigates what it means to be a woman in a male dominated environment.
Flux has been developed in London and Oxford and heavily influenced by female figures from the world of science, most notably Lise Meitner, a physicist who discovered nuclear fission in the late 1930s but whose work was undermined by her colleague Otto Hahn, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery.
With a dynamic, tetris-like set evoking Kate’s world, a blend of live action and shadow puppetry and a thumping 80s soundtrack by award-winning composer Jon Ouin, (Stornoway, BBC, Sky), Flux explores the ever-resonant story of a woman fighting to be heard.
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