CREDIBLE LIKEABLE
SUPERSTAR
ROLE MODEL Show Created June 2013, Toured August 2013 - 2014 
In an audacious and provocative protest against the world’s flagrant attempts to
sexualise and commodify childhood, Kimmings and her 9-year-old niece, Taylor, decided to take on the global
tween machine at its own game.
They invented 'Catherine Bennett', a dinosaur-loving, bike-riding, tuna-pasta-eating pop
star, and vowed to make her world famous to prove that an alternative was possible! Bryony became Catherine
Bennett and Taylor her manager. So far they’ve been invited to parliament, become friends with Yoko Ono and
featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour.
Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model is Taylor
and Bryony’s theatre show. It is not for kids. Instead it tackles the issues at the very core of their project
head on. It is set in a fantasy land far from our own, where lines are drawn in the sand, girls become knights,
eyeballs are gouged, wars are waged and people sell their souls. It is a tale of hopeless protection, blind
fury, 9-year-old brains and taking on the world with your family. In typically screwball and humorous fashion,
Kimmings begs the question: what does it really take to be a Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model for a child
of the 21st century?
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Fringe First 2013
Three Weeks Editors Award 2013
Fringe
Review Outstanding Show 2013
The Arches Brick Award 2013 
PRESS
“Hilarious, heart-breaking, troubling and inspirational.
Kick-ass in all the right ways.”
Time Out
★★★★★
“Leaves you optimistic that you can go out into the
'real world' and change it”
Exeunt
★★★★★
“Bold, brave and very brilliant – don’t miss!”
Independent
★★★★★
“A work of almost staggering warmth and
fragility”
Scotsman
★★★★★
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REVIEWS
The Guardian
Herald Sun, Australia
The Times
Evening Standard
Metro
The Age, Australia
Co-commissioned by
Contact, Manchester and The
Junction, Cambridge
Funded by
The Jerwood
Charitable Foundation and Arts Council England
Supported by
Soho Theatre, The Southbank Centre, The Almeida,
The Manchester Museum and Theatre Works, Melbourne
Toured
2014
North Wall,
Oxford • Bristol Old Vic • The Arches, Glasgow • South Street Arts Centre, Reading • Theatre Works, Melbourne
• Quarterhouse, Folkestone • Pulse Festival, New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich • Mac, Birmingham • Soho
Theatre • Brighton Dome
2013
The Almeida Festival* •
Latitude Festival • The Pleasance, Edinburgh • Soho Theatre • The Junction, Cambridge • Contact,
Manchester
*Preview showing
Credits
Written by
Bryony Kimmings • Performed by Bryony Kimmings and Taylor Houchen • Music and co-direction by Tom Parkinson •
Lighting Design by Marty Langthorne • Set Design by David Curtis Ring • Costumes by David Curtis Ring and
Stephanie Turner • Dramaturgical Support from Nina Steiger • Produced by Mimi Poskitt • Stage Managed by
Hattie Prust and Lottie Vallis • Production Photos by Richard Davenport • Show image by Christa Holka and
Alexander Innes
Find out more about
The Catherine Bennett Project
here.
