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About the company
Hooky Productions is an award-winning theatre company created by sisters Rosa and Maya Hallpike.
Together they create interactive, dark comedy that has been developing since their childhood. Their character of 'Monkion' ventures into the otherworldly and the non-human.
In the summer of 2019, Maya and Rosa brought their debut sketch comedy show "Sis!" to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - "it's all utterly ridiculous and it's all utterly fantastic" (Edfringe Review).
They went on to develop the character of 'Monkion' and the show "Experiment Human" for which they won the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence in Association for the Rotunda Theatre at the Scotsman Fringe Awards in 2022. The company was supported to take 'Experiment Human' to the Rotunda Theatre at Brighton Fringe in May 2023.
Off the back of this success, they created a new experimental show "There's a Monkion in Your Attic" touring to London, Iceland, Durham and Edinburgh in 2023.
They won an OffWestEnd Award/ OFFIE 2024, as well as Keep It Fringe Funding which has supported them to bring the developed version of Experiment Human to Edinburgh Fringe this August.
"Experiment Human is one of the most unique and unusual stories being told on stage." - Lost in Theatreland, 2023
EXPERIMENT HUMAN 2024 DATES:
PREVIEWS:
17 July, Fusion Arts, 95 Glocester Green, Oxford, OX1 2DF
28 July, Old Red Lion, 418 St John Street, London, EC1V 4NJ
1,2 August, Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe
EDINBURGH FRINGE:
1-26 August
https://www.underbellyedinburgh.co.uk/events/event/experiment-human
PAST SHOWS:
2022
20th July, The Cockpit, London
26th - 27th July, The City Theatre, Durham
4th - 28th August, The Dragonfly, Edinburgh
2023
29 January, Vault Festival @ The VOID, London Waterloo
20 April, Old Firestation, Oxford
17-21 May, The Rotunda Theatre, Brighton
2022
20th July, The Cockpit, London
26th - 27th July, The City Theatre, Durham
4th - 28th August, The Dragonfly, Edinburgh
2023
29 January, Vault Festival @ The VOID, London Waterloo
20 April, Old Firestation, Oxford
17-21 May, The Rotunda Theatre, Brighton