Jayde Adams: How to Lose and Not Cry
Written & Performed by Jayde Adams
Saturday 2nd August, 6:00pm
This performance is currently
sold-out. A limited number of seats may be released 24 hours before the
performance. Pay-What-You-Can standing/floor seating tickets will be
available to buy on the door.
Complex, raw, and quietly burdened by
years of unspoken grief, we meet Dawn at a pivotal moment: crafting a
funeral wreath for someone she’d rather not talk about. The task seems to
soften her… and suddenly—she opens up, perhaps for the first time in her
life.
What she shares is a story stitched with sequins and steeped
in legacy—of freestyle disco, ferocious dance mums, and the resilience it
takes to keep picking yourself up and dancing when you fall. She taught a
generation of working-class girls in the ’90s not just how to thrive, but
how to lose—and not cry.
It’s a mantra she’s lived by. But as
her story unfolds, we begin to wonder: has that philosophy served her—or
has it slowly worn her down?
Jayde Adams is a multi award-winning
comedian, actor, and writer. She has starred in the triple BAFTA
award-winning Alma’s Not Normal, ITV’s Ruby Speaking, and the feature film
Greatest Days. Now, in an exciting transition from stand-up back to her
roots in theatre, Jayde returns to the fringe with the same bold voice and
magnetic presence that made her a standout in comedy.
