SHIFT+SPACE | CAMPitalism: Three Gays Try to Fix The Economy by BOY Theatre

Money makes the world go round. But as young people working in an industry that is increasingly being sapped of money and support, how are we expected to navigate it? In a system that is stacked against us, maybe it’s up to us to tear it down.

CAMPitalism is a TedX talk meets drag brunch meets the Lehman Trilogy. Taking inspiration from high octane financial dramas like The Big Short, the huel-drinking grindset personalities like Stephen Bartlett, and TV shows like The Apprentice and Industry, three queers battle entrenched bureaucracy in an earnest attempt to understand and demystify finance.

At its core, CAMPitalism is a genreless piece of queer theatre in a society where everything (economically and socially) is predicated on simple identification. We are everything. We are nothing. We’re here, we’re queer and we’re financially-illiterate.

Credits

Kit Miles, Maria Telnikoff and Cherry Eckel

About this performance

Age guidance: This performance is recommended for ages 16+

Content warning: The artist will confirm content warnings nearer the time of the performance.

Interval: This performance does not have an interval.

Post show discussion: This performance has a post show discussion.

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Find out more about BOY Theatre

BOY Theatre is a fresh new company of fellow audition rejects who came together over their shared obnoxiously gay appearances and gender neutral pronouns. We are composed of three actor-writer-performers: Maria Telnikoff, Kit Miles, and Cherry Eckel.

Our work aims to be: energetic, exposing, inherently political, heartwarming, woke, and groundbreakingly silly.

We’ve been described as having an ‘over-the-top brand of silliness’ making work that is ‘oh so relevant and needed’. Our first week-long R&D took place at the London Bubble in November 2024, as part of ‘Make Space!’. At the end of the week, we shared the first work-in-progress of the show to an audience of industry and pals.

As individual artists, our work has played at venues across the country, including: Nottingham Playhouse, The Lowry, Contact MCR, MAST Mayflower Studios, Battersea Arts Centre, Omnibus Theatre, Riverside Studios, Greenwich Theatre and VAULT Festival.

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SHIFT+SPACE

This performance is part of the SHIFT+SPACE programme

Theatre Deli’s SHIFT+SPACE programme is a free performance opportunity for artists to present their work that needs an audience to develop, where artists keep 100% of the Box Office!

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