★★★★ Counter Culture UK:

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Fragen Network’s Abhorrent Little Scrotum is a surreal, darkly comic cyber-thriller that slips between physical theatre, psychological depth, and the destabilising hum of digital disorientation. It’s a tight, intense piece that asks what happens when technology not only rewrites reality, but rewires the self.

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★★★★ Lexical Lunacy:
 

"Disturbingly surreal and at times cartoonishly whacky, I came to watch for the name and stayed for the bizarreness that followed. Abhorrent Little Scrotum proves to be a trippy and sometimes unnerving theatrical experience. Writer/director Roland Reynolds, has succeeded in creating a show with a very unique and beguiling atmosphere. It has mesmerising movements and visuals, and an unnerving underlying hum... Abhorrent Little Scrotum is wonderfully weird. It could stand to take its foot off the weird pedal a little bit maybe... What’s certain is, I didn’t see anything else quite like it this Fringe."

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Returning after a five year hiatus, Fragen Network presents the world premiere of Abhorrent Little Scrotum, a visceral, darkly comic exploration of identity and control, running at theSpace on the Mile from 11th to 16th of August. Written and directed by Roland Reynolds and starring Zaza Bagley, Ángel López-Silva (Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue on MGM+) and international stage actress Anastasiya Zinovieva.

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Playing in the dark world of delusion and betrayal, Abhorrent Little Scrotum is a surreal, darkly comic cyber-thriller about fractured identity and broken friendship.After a personal collapse, hacker Jack retreats into the Experience, a hallucinatory digital mindscape, to rescue her best friend Dari from a consuming mental virus. Under the Experience, Jack tries to help Dari keep it together as her hunt for the truth turns into a dangerous obsession.

Founded in 2014, Fragen Network is a London-based theatre company with an international outlook, dedicated to creating radical, physical and emotionally powerful new work. We use dark humour and a raw physical language of expression to put a slice of life under the microscope of theatre. Our drive is to ask the most difficult questions and leave the answers hanging. Fragen has produced a string of ambitious projects, including Planter’s Island (Platform Theatre, London, 2014), Blush of Dogs(Tabard Theatre, London, 2015), 5 out of 10 men (theSpaceUK, Edinburgh, 2016), Hell Yes I’m Tough Enough (Park Theatre, London, 2019) and Hamletmaschine (Astakhov Cultural Centre, Moscow, 2019).

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After a five-year hiatus, we are thrilled to return to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025 with two brand-new projects. Abhorrent Little Scrotum and Hunger will be running in sequence for one-week each.

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