SWAN?
A raunchy twist on Swan Lake! Meet Odette—a chain-smoking half-swan, half-ballerina who is desperately searching for her true love to rescue her from a life of limbo. Come down to the lake and laugh while Odette pirouettes around and invites you to declare your undying love for her so she can escape this living hell!
★★★★★ ‘Deeply layered and confronting’ - The List UK
★★★★★ ‘Clowning Excellence’ - The Edinburgh Critic Flora Gosling
★★★★★ ‘A huge talent’ - Edmonton Journal
Created and Performed by Lauren Brady
Directed by Nicole Maloney
Presented by HEYwire Theatre
Presented by: Lauren Brady
Lauren Brady is an award-winning creator & performer based in Canada. Brady has trained in various styles of dance since age 3. She has performed and choreographed independently and for companies across Canada since 2018. Brady is an alumnus of the University of Alberta's BFA in Acting Program. Since then, she has pursued clowning through Mump & Smoot mentorship, Training with Spymonkey, and Denise Clarke’s One Yellow Rabbit’s BYA Ensemble.
Brady is the founder of HEYwire Theatre, a company that creates work surrounding ominous topics and dissects them through comedy to make the undesirable content more palatable through laughter. Recent works include OWEaDEBT (5 stars TheLISTuk / 5 stars The Edinburgh Theatre Critic/ Edmonton Fringe Official HOLD OVER Series 2024)
Reviews & Fringe Feed Reacts
clowning excellence - Flora Gosling, Edinburgh Critic - Flora Gosling
Deeply layered and confronting - Jo Laidlaw, The List
addresses the deepest of themes but so subtly, so hidden beneath a shroud of hilarity, - James Murphy, Scenestr
the perfect piece of polished performance. - Cara Brown, suchclichetheatre