A multi-award winning drag artist is coming home to York with her long-awaited solo debut.
Crudi Dench, writer and star of multi-award-winning fringe hits Drag Queens vs Zombies and Drag Queens vs Vampires, is bringing a celebrity-fuelled television spectacular to City Screen, York, on Friday 29 May.
Crudi started performing in drag in 2016, living in York after graduating from university. She saw a gap in the nightlife scene for a drag night and created the cult night ‘Lip Sync Lollapalooza’ taking place at the legendary Fibbers.
Sadly, the pandemic drew Crudi away from the city but now she’s back with her bonkers new show Someone Help Her!
In Someone Help Her! the delusional drag diva Crudi has scored a pilot episode of her own TV show. She’s got 60 minutes to make television gold with the help of her “celebrity friends” who just so happen to be dotted around the audience. Crudi drags these “definitely willing celebrities” from the audience into chaotic vignettes all in the aim of giving back after an unbelievable career (and to convince her producer she’s the star she knows she is).
Will Crudi survive as her seemingly perfect celebrity existence comes crashing down around her? Will Crudi’s “celebrity friends” help her put on the best show on terrestrial television? Is it true that Crudi will actually crowdsurf naked if she’s successful in helping someone?
Through stand-up, audience interaction, and in a first for a millennial, bravely picking up a telephone without getting a text beforehand, Someone Help Her! examines celebrity vanity, the performative nature of identity and the costs of chasing dreams.
Tickets for Someone Help Her! start from £8, and are available online here.
