Oh, My Green Soap Box, performed at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2009, at Oval House, and The Junction, Cambridge.

“Delightful.”      Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (Pick of the Day) 

“For my small audience I will launch a really big campaign. This one will be different from other campaigns. This one will be the one where things really change! This one will make us feel like different people. Or not even like people any more. Like birds, like trees, like the sea, like the mountains”.

With some stuff she found in her bedroom, Lucy Foster will attempt to evoke, by whatever means available, the beautiful white world melting below our feet. She will try not to shout at you, she will try to keep things merry, and hope that it doesn’t all come flooding out. With wry humour and little more than a bedsheet and a projector, she invites you to take a look at how the desire to love the planet and love another human being can sometimes become confused.

“Both a comically wayward attempt at environmental activism – achieved via a hilariously crap 'propaganda' video about the plight of the polar bear – and a musing on her own singledom, the genius of the show is that Foster successfully conflates the two, and in doing so touches on something much bigger.”      Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out (★★★★)

Oh My Green Soap Box, written and performed by Lucy Foster, and directed by Mike Tweddle, initially grew out of a mentoring retreat with Guy Dartnell in 2007, the "Balloon" artist peer-mentoring scheme run by Artsadmin, and a period of research and development at Battersea Arts Centre.

Since then it has been developed through performances at the Shunt Vaults, Camden People’s Theatre (as part of the Sprint Festival 2008) Sophiensaele and Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, where it won best show at the 100˚ Festival 2008.

For further details and all other enquiries, please contact David Luff (Producer) on davidrluff@gmail.com

You can view the polar bear video that features in the show here