Autobiographical show Unfamiliar At Home to embark on virtual tour

A stripped back autobiographical piece of theatre about being queer, wanting children and creating a legacy will embark on a virtual tour this November.

Victor Esses and Yorgos Petrou’s Unfamiliar At Home will be performed live to audiences via Zoom each night between 10-25 November, presented in association with theatres across the UK, including The Lowry in Manchester, Chapter in Cardiff, Arts Depot in London, Cambridge Junction in Cambridge, The Place in Bedford and Shout Festival in Birmingham.

The beautifully intimate production combines Victor’s theatre and performance making techniques with Yorgos’ background as a visual artist; it is a product of them working together, to explore how they can expand their family. They share a meal as a pre-recorded conversation talks about what a family consists of for them, they listen to interviews with members of queer families, and they speak of the unsolicited advice they received about becoming parents. As Yorgos and Victor explore their memories, fears and relationship, they reclaim the term.

Esses and Petrou said: “Unfamiliar at Home is the natural progression for our stage piece Unfamiliar: we took the domestic into the performance space, now we bring the  performance into the domestic. It’s an exciting thing to bring the audience on a journey with us  in our real home, to make something so comfortable to us become strange and unfamiliar. It  allows us to explore the feelings, the unsaid, the hard to communicate stuff that surfaces in and  occupies our home in this quest to get ready to become dads. It feels like an important moment  to touch on choice and to empower ourselves to believe that we are deserving, especially at a  time of crisis and struggle.”

To book tickets, please visit your local venue’s website out of those listed above.