Casting "Darling, I Think I’m Turning Into a Chicken," a darkly comic new play about generational trauma and transformation.

Florence has everything she’s ever wanted: a fiancée, a thriving career, and a perfect home. But when she starts to grow feathers, her carefully constructed life begins to unravel. As the transformation worsens and threatens to kill her, Florence discovers she’s not alone: her estranged family are changing too. To survive, she must confront the past she’s spent a lifetime avoiding.

Blending new writing with choreographed movement and ensemble physical theatre, the piece moves between realism and absurdism. Using the image of the chicken, fragile yet descended from the T-Rex, the play explores how trauma is carried in the body, and what happens when it is left unspoken across generations. Urgent, surreal and darkly funny, Darling, I Think I’m Turning Into a Chicken asks what it takes to break cycles of inheritance—and whether healing is ever truly possible.

Veterinary nurse, female-presenting, around forties. Same actor plays Shernice and the Nurse. Curious, professional, knowledgeable, perceptive. An expert veterinarian who has studied a lots of more and less exotic birds. Unlike the fumbling Doctor, Shernice is a competent and up-to-date healthcare professional who can empathise with her patients. Her experience as a veterinary nurse makes her an unexpected but useful help to Florence when she begins to suffer from health issues and eventually grows chicken feathers. However, beyond all that, she is excited most of all - Florence turning into a chicken is a scientific gold mine for research and a stepping stone for her career.

“Birds do usually arrive in a flock. Humans with feathers, on the other hand, are still deciding how they want to arrive.”

Theatre - 'Darling, I Think I'm Turning Into A Chicken'

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