Louise Orwin brings her live TikTok show FAMEHUNGRY to Brighton Dome

Performance artist Louise Orwin² brings FAMEHUNGRY to Brighton Dome’s¹ Studio Theatre on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November. The show runs in the theatre and on TikTok Live at the same time, so it plays to two audiences: the people in the seats and strangers watching on TikTok.

Each night Orwin makes a deal with the internet. On her own website she puts it this way: “if you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing for you.” She then works through a string of tasks based on TikTok trends, each harder than the last. Her guide is TikToker Jax Valentine. The Dome’s listing puts Valentine at 23 with 80k followers, and Orwin at 39 with 5k.

Orwin says between 300 and 5,000 strangers on TikTok have watched on any given night. She has been trolled, tipped and suspended from her own account mid-show. Across more than 100 shows, she says, she has earned £21.49.

The show won the List x Sit Up Award and the Summerhall Lustrum Award in 2024. It has played Edinburgh, New York, Denmark, Malta and Mexico’s Cervantino festival. The Independent called it “Funny, inventive and stunningly incisive”. It is touring internationally through 2026 and 2027.

Both shows start at 8pm, with doors at 7.15pm, and last about an hour. Tickets cost £20, or £18 for concessions, with a limited number of £10 low-income tickets. Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival members save £2 on full price. The Dome recommends it for ages 14 and up. Saturday’s performance is BSL interpreted, and the show is seated.