At the start of 2018 everyone died. Lucy left a successful career, retrained as an English teacher and moved to Egypt. Everyone thought she’d be home within weeks. This one woman show tells the highs, lows and life lessons of moving halfway across the world, as well as one very unexpected new job. Expect laughter, brutal honesty, and a ton of belly dancing in the aisles.
Warning: This show will have the Shirley Valentine effect on in-therapy millennials looking for self-inflicted instagrammable trauma.
The Team
Writer and Performer: Lucy Andrina
Director: Betty Chequers
Technical & FOH support kindly provided by the Bloomsbury Festival
Hot Trip Theatre is a newly formed theatre company. A collaboration between two women in their thirties: Betty and Lucy.
Betty Chequers is a director, teacher, musician, performer and live art creator, who has a passion for anything quirky, feral and fantastic; creating out of the box shows that always leave you questioning your sanity.
Lucy Andrina is a British performance artist, writer and belly dancer trained in Cairo, Egypt, with impulsively itchy feet; making hilarious, slightly chaotic but surprisingly poignant theatre.
How to Run Away is brought to you as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2023 through the New Wave emerging artists programme.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has helped in the production of this show including:
Penny & Sian at the Wick, Langport.
Ian & The Hatch
Everyone who recorded voiceovers
Eman Mahmoud
Our friends and family who’ve put up with us on our artistic journey
Lucy’s therapist, nutritionist and hypnotherapist who sorted her out.
The Bellydancing Backpacker 