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It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure

Theatre

Apr 02—13, 2025

It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure

Flawbored / from UK

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★★★★★

“Stunningly inventive satire”

— The Times

This project is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

A scathing, hilarious satire on the monetization of identity politics which spares no one.

Usually disabled people want to do the right thing. But what if they don’t?

What if they were out to make as much money as possible from the guilt of non-disabled, anxious people (like you)?

Hot off the back of their smash-hit Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Soho Theatre NY runs, multi award-winning, disability-led theatre company FlawBored presents a scathing satire on the monetization of identity politics which spares no one and literally has audiences catching their breath between fits of laughter.

Info

Venue

Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Paramount
559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111

Dates

Apr 02, 2025 - Apr 13, 2025

Special Events

First Toast hosted by Ronee Penoi following the WED, APR 02 Performance.
Post-show talkback following THU, APR 03 Performance.
Post-show talkback following FRI, APR 11 Performance.

Details

Note: Due to limited seating, we are unable to offer Group Discounts for It’s A Motherf**king Pleasure.

Details

60 minutes

Ages 16+

Content warning: Strong Language, Ableism, Graphic Spoken Descriptions of Self Harm.

Access

All shows have integrated audio description

All shows have integrated captioning

Tickets

At this time, some performances of this show may appear as SOLD OUT, however, we recommend that you continue checking back as tickets may be in flux and seating may become available at a later time.

Sunday, Apr 13, 2025

2:00 PM

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Company

Flawbored

FlawBored is a multi award winning disability led Theatre Company, Co founded by Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani and Chloe Palmer. They create meta theatrical work with dark irreverence which aims to address complex and uncomfortable issues surrounding identity which no one has the answers to.

There shows all feature integrated, creative access through out and seek to create an environment where all audiences, regardless of impairments and disabilities are able to access the same show.

A FlawBored show is cheeky, chaotic and most importantly is not disability ‘trauma-porn’ or ‘pity-porn.’

Samuel Brewer

Sam is an access consultant, facilitator, actor & theatre maker who graduated from BA Acting CDT at Central in 2020. Since graduating he has heavily involved himself in disability related activism and was the director of The Diversity School Initiative. He is also an ambassador for the Disability Artist Network Collective. He runs workshops on access tools in the rehearsal room – skill building for practitioners on making their methodologies more accessible. These workshops are designed to be active, engaging and cheeky. Self describing the way he works as “take the works seriously, don’t take yourself seriously.”

Aarian Mehrabani

Aarian trained on the BA Acting (Collaborative and devised theatre) course at the Royal Central school of speech and drama, graduating in 2020. Before moving to London in 2017 he worked closely with The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, appearing in shows such as Nothing (2016/2017), directed by Bryony Shanahan and BRINK, directed by Matthew Xia.

He has also worked in musical theatre with Leo&Hyde playing Aziz in their UK tour of ‘GUY: A new musical’ and 2021 R&D, alongside working with them to integrate music tech and live looping into their new musical “Galileo”.

Chloe Palmer

Chloe is an Actor and Theatremaker who graduated from BA Acting CDT at Central in 2020. Working very physically and collaboratively, Chloe has an interest in the abstract and weird, using this as a way to tread the line between tragedy and comedy. As an actor: We Need to Talk About Grief: R&D – Sean Linnen and Sonia Jalaly (Donmar Warehouse) CONTAINS ADULT THEMES AND VIOLENCE: Martha Watson-Allpress (Upstairs at the Gatehouse)

Gallery

Video
photos

All three actors holding hands raised together

Photo Credit: Paul Fuller

Actor AArian Mehrabani sitting in a white chair slouched over.

Samuel Brewer Standing in a suit and shirt with white collar speaking i front of a screen.

All three main actors, Standing together looking into crowd.

Photo Credit: Alex Brenner

Actor AArian sitting in a chair, holding a book speaking with arms open.

Photo Credit: Alex Brenner

Photo Credit: Alex Brenner

Buzz

Press
Blog

★★★★

“Their pin-sharp show is overflowing with dark humour and righteous anger, but there’s no finger-waving. The perfect ally doesn’t exist – we’re all failing terribly, but acknowledging that is half the battle.”

— Fest Magazine

★★★★

“A tsunami of satire”

— The Stage

April 1, 2025

Meet FlawBored Theatre: The Group Behind It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure

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