Frau Welt by Peter Clements & Oliver Dawe

Frau Welt was first performed at Hackney Showroom in October 2017 and at the Assembly Rooms for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018.

REVIEWS Hackney Showroom 2017
★★★★★ The Ethel Mermaids  “Everything about this production is perfection”
★★★★★ The LGBTQ Arts Review  “sumptously funny… unique brand of drag meets theatre”
★★★★★ To Do List “a joy to watch”
★★★★★ QX Magazine “At once darkly funny and touchingly sympathetic… unique!”
★★★★★ Hiskind “a highly effective balance between absurdist cabaret and truthful theatre”
★★★★ Boyz “a piece of truly exceptional theatre”

REVIEWS Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Assembly Rooms 2018
★★★★★ Broadway Baby “a stunning, gendre-busting play”
★★★★ The Scotsman “crafted with obvious skill”
★★★★ The List “dark, funny and completely mesmeric”


In anticipation of her retirement, join the cult of Frau Welt worshippers to experience the egomaniacal Midas touch of this grande dame of the theatre from Weimar Berlin to Broadway stardom, her secret is finally exposed…

Frau Welt is a genre-busting play by Peter Clements and Oliver Dawe about the outsider and the consequences of a life excluded.

Directed by Oliver Dawe
Performed by Peter Clements
Based on an original design by Joanna Scotcher
Costumes by Costume Collective
Lighting Design Alex Fernandes
Sound Design Owen Crouch
Movement Director Jane Gibson
Dramaturg Tim Crouch

Special thanks to Paul Stevens for his generous donation to this production.