Thirsty

Event information

Multi award winning company The Paper Birds present their critically acclaimed show Thirsty. Based on our nation’s love affair with alcohol, Thirsty weaves together real stories, memories and booze-based confessions, collected from a ‘drunken hotline’ and an online questionnaire. Fusing live music, verbatim text and stunning physical theatre, The Paper Birds explore the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas, bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, urine stained beds and sore heads, particularly focusing on the women waving the flag for 'Booze-Britain’.
Thirsty looks to the faces and the voices of everyone who likes a drink and asks why, as a Nation, are we so thirsty?

‘Terrifically sharp, vibrantly choreographed and sensitively paced, poignant without getting preachy’. The Independent

‘An energetic rollercoaster ride through the reasons that make so many of us reach for the bottle…, exuberantly performed.’ The Daily Telegraph