CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF FLIP!, A POWERFUL NEW SATIRE EXPLORING AGENCY AND SOCIAL MEDIA
- LEAH ST LUCE WILL PLAY CARLEEN AND JADESOLA ODUNJO WILL PLAY CRYSTAL
- JOINING THE CREATIVE TEAM ARE ANNA ROBINSON (SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER), ELIYANA EVANS (SOUND DESIGNER), ALINE DAVID (MOVEMENT DIRECTOR), AND KJ (LIGHTING DESIGNER)
- THIS POWERFUL SATIRE EXAMINES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO YOUNG WOMEN AND THEIR OBSESSION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
Casting has been announced for the premiere of FLIP! with Leah St Luce (9 to 5 The Musical Savoy, Jack and the Beanstalk Lyric Hammersmith, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical UK & Ireland Tour)to play Carleen, and Jadesola Odunjo (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play Lyric Hammersmith, You Netflix) to play Crystal.
Writer Racheal Ofori and director Emily Aboud will be joined in the creative team by set and costume designer Anna Robinson, sound designer Eliyana Evans, movement director Aline David, and lighting designer KJ.
The play, which is produced by Fuel in association with Alphabetti Theatre, will open at Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle (10-28 Oct), before heading to Summerhall in Edinburgh (31 Oct – 4 Nov) and Soho Theatre in London (7-25 Nov).
Meet Carleen and Crystal. The influencers with cultural commentary that will have you in stitches! Love them or hate them, there’s no stopping their fast-growing online following.
Offline, Carleen has her reservations about their cyber personas, but she idolises Crystal and would follow her anywhere…even to FLIP!, the new social media giant that has everyone hooked – and Carleen and Crystal are no exception; especially when it seems that their videos could make them famous.
Superstardom, followers, fame, influence, money: it’s all just one click away. FLIP! is the answer to everything they’ve ever dreamed of. But is it too good to be true?