Queenie Tea is a larger than life 89yr old who engages everyone in conversation, she enjoys a cup of tea and chit chat with any passer by, she will happily read your tea leaves, informing you of your fate, If she has time. She finds great satisfaction in exchanging stories with anyone and everyone about anything and everything, especially a bit of family gossip, before you know it you will have told Queenie the details of your family history, from the day you were born to your mother's maiden name.
She is an immersive, interactive 'Grotesque' that Sally Boon (Mardy Arts) has been developing for the last four years. Her early incarnations enabled Queenie to engage in lively, entertaining, yet poignant, conversation over a cup of tea exchanging stories of enviable or non enviable births and her own childlessness. Exploring the fears of loneliness in old age. Queenie was first conceived in 2011 and could be found, throughout the summer of 2011, in a small purpose built 'shack' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival having Tea and cake with an audience of three.
She is an immersive, interactive 'Grotesque' that Sally Boon (Mardy Arts) has been developing for the last four years. Her early incarnations enabled Queenie to engage in lively, entertaining, yet poignant, conversation over a cup of tea exchanging stories of enviable or non enviable births and her own childlessness. Exploring the fears of loneliness in old age. Queenie was first conceived in 2011 and could be found, throughout the summer of 2011, in a small purpose built 'shack' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival having Tea and cake with an audience of three.