Louise Orwin has read the writing on the wall.

Performance art is dead. (Maybe)

Flipping the script on the mentor/mentee relationship, acclaimed multi-award winning UK performance artist Louise Orwin has enlisted Gen Z TikToker Jax Valentine (21yo, 80k followers) to guide her (37yo, 4k followers) through a brave new world of dance trends, 24 hour live-streaming, enforced face filters and endless monetizable content. The aim? To answer a very personal question: how can performance art compete in the digital age?

FAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nosedive into the TikTok universe, the attention economy, and what it means to be an artist now. Fusing performance art and very real and very live TikTok Experiences, join Louise as she cosplays as a TikToker in a real-life experiment hunting for fame and fortune, and the humanity in all of this.

Unlike anything you’ll have seen before, FAMEHUNGRY takes place simultaneously in front of a live theatre audience and on TikTok Live, where it’s watched by thousands of strangers on the internet – but only if it escapes the TikTok censors. [The only catch being that the TikTok Live audience don’t get to see the whole show]. Made in collaboration Jax, some secret TikTok-Famous Faces and The Almighty Algorithm, FAMEHUNGRY taps into an existential question about the live arts and the future of performance: in a crumbling arts economy and a growing digital monoculture, where do we turn to find hope?

In a world in which all roads lead to TikTok, FAMEHUNGRY asks how social media is changing us and the art we make, what young people think about the future, and what it feels like to be hungry for fame in the face of a world on fire.

List x Sit Up Award Winner 2024 + Summerhall Lustrum Award Winner 2024 + The Space Digital Award 2023

‘A timely look at what it means to exist and perform online, FAMEHUNGRY is perhaps the only show we’ve seen that really captures the feeling of social media in all its messiness… All told, this is a piece you don’t wanna miss.” ★★★★★ - To Do List

“unlike any live theatre you will have ever experienced… unlike any live theatre you will have ever experienced” ★★★★★ - Corr Blimey

“urgent, powerful and frightening theatre performed with courage, precision and clarity of purpose” ★★★★★ - British Theatre Guide

“a portrait of humanity as it desperately tries to wring love and affirmation from the machine” ★★★★ - The Scotsman

“A vital presence… and skilful interrogation of how to make art in a world that feels like it’s being chewed up, swallowed and regurgitated as contextless slop” ★★★★ - Three Weeks

“Funny, inventive and stunningly incisive… it’s meaty, knotty innards leave you reeling” - The Independent

★★★★ - Theatre & Arts Reviews

★★★★ - Broadway World

★★★★★ - Edinburgh Guide

★★★★★ - The Indiependent

★★★★ - Adventures in Theatreland

★★★★ - Wales Online

FAMEHUNGRY completed a smash hit run at Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024, and is currently touring the UK and Internationally.

Current Autumn Tour Dates here

Please get in touch with producer@louiseorwin.com to enquire about becoming a tour partner.