Clown Sex

Working Birthday

Clown Sex is a co-production between Working Birthday and Playwell Productions.

Working Birthday subverts traditional representations of women and instead presents complex, hilarious, and even amoral queer and disabled female protagonists with unflinching detail. We’ve created critically acclaimed shows like Freud the Musical which explore mental health, sexuality, and the enduring quest for human connection. We’re the filthy joke that makes your mum laugh in spite of herself.

PlayWell Productions supports underrepresented artists to explore and share their stories, as a way of elevating visibility and giving equal opportunity and voice.

Alongside Clown Sex, its companion piece Love Rash will be performed at the Pleasance, London on 14 - 18 February 2023.

We are currently developing Natasha’s musical Lesbian Pirates! We've been lucky to receive support from Arts Council England, Unlimited, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Lowry, Southbank Centre, New Wolsey Theatre, artsdepot, the Albany, Musical Theatre Network, Unity Theatre Trust, and the Canadian Embassy.

Press & Reviews

COVERAGE

Read Natasha's Beyond The Joke interview here

You can also check out the podcast here or where you get your podcasts

PRAISE FOR CLOWN SEX

There Ought To Be Clowns
"Eye-opening, sense-tingling, nipple-twisting levels of frankness... Sutton Williams offers up an audacious, visceral performance which is mesmeric in its intensity"

Breaking the Fourth Wall
★★★★½
"There are so many things Sutton Williams’ draws upon in the three plays, one is spoilt for choice"

Culture Calling
Pick of Female Led Shows 2019

Time Out London
Pick of the Camden Fringe 2018

Camden New Journal
Pick of the Camden Fringe 2018

Arts Council England
Diversity Relationship Manager
"What a truly mesmerising performance. Compelling and irresistible. It was a roller coaster of humour, poignancy, calamity, realism, more humour and much more. I was genuinely captivated. It is one of the most original pieces of work I have seen. Clown Sex will be my top recommendation."

PRAISE FOR FREUD THE MUSICAL

Time Out New York
Best live theatre to stream online 2020

Musical Theatre Review
★★★★
“Natasha Sutton Williams oozes talent… startling, edgy and impressive performance.”

Broadway World
★★★★
“Authentic and unexpected comedy… Laugh-out-loud funny.”

Reviews Hub
★★★★
“If you want to spend an hour of your night belly laughing then you’ll be well catered for.”

Female Arts
★★★★
“I laughed out loud the entire way through and could have happily watched another hour of this work.”

London Theatre 1

Cast & Creative Team Writer and Actor: Natasha Sutton Williams

Natasha is an award-winning writer, composer, and actor. Her one-woman show Freud The Musical has been a Time Out London and Time Out New York top pick. Her plays have been produced at multiple London venues. She is an Associate Artist at the Albany 2022 - 24.

Natasha is currently developing her musical Lesbian Pirates! about the real life lesbian pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read battling the 18th Century patriarchy.

Natasha recently adapted Clown Sex into a 6-part comedy drama podcast series. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts!

Producer: Steph J Weller for PlayWell Productions

Steph is an Old Vic 12 trained and Stage One supported theatre producer, annually delivering work with national and international artists. Alongside developing a number of theatre productions via her company PlayWell Productions, Steph is a producer for Reading Rep and produces the annual ACE-funded Reading Fringe Festival. Steph is supported by China Plate via their Darkroom programme.

Steph is founder of PlayWell Productions CIC which supports artists to share their stories, elevating their visibility and giving equal opportunity and voice. These stories are created by queer, female, non-binary, disabled, and global majority artists. Learn more at www.playwellproductions.co.uk