Darkly comic drag-infused business satire comes to Leeds Playhouse next month

DYKE Systems Ltd – part business seminar; part suburban nightmare – runs in the Bramall Rock Void at the Playhouse from 21-22 November.

Smash hit Edinburgh Fringe show DYKE Systems Ltd brings hilarious anarchy to Leeds Playhouse as it tells the satirical tale of two business women attempting to climb the corporate ladder.

Set in the 1990s at the height of multi-level marketing expansion but before the rise of the internet, this two-handed comedy delves into the collision of repressed queerness and corporate feminism and looks at how modern technology and finance have weaponised them both.

American suburban business women Sally and Susan are on the hunt for new recruits for their very lucrative business opportunity that is definitely not a pyramid scheme. But as they dive deeper into the shiny world of multi-level marketing, they become caught up in climbing the cut-throat corporate ladder and cracks begin to appear in their pastel-perfect lives, unravelling long-buried tensions and unspoken desires as the lies they’ve built everything on start to catch up with them.

Blending drag, comedy, physical theatre and audience interaction, Sally and Susan guide us through the DYKE programme (Dynamic, Young, Knowledgeable, Entrepreneur) which explores the intersections of queerness and feminism in a capitalist world that is coming for us all.

Fag Packet is an award-winning cabaret, theatre, and drag double act made up of Kheski Kobler and Holly Wilson-Guy. Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and receiving The Stage Fringe 5 Award, they’re bringing their hit show to Leeds Playhouse as part of a UK National Tour.

Written & Performed by Kheski Kobler and Holly Wilson-Guy, DYKE Systems Ltd is Directed & Co-written with Lucy Allan, Produced by Beth Sitek, Design by Shahaf Beer, Lighting Design by Benny Goodman, Movement Direction by Barry Fitzgerald, Sound Design & Composition by Sarah Spencer, and Technical Stage Management by Chuck SJ.

DYKE Systems Ltd plays at Leeds Playhouse 21-22 November. Tickets are available here.