Darkie Armo Girl; The Finborough Theatre, Earls Court; 25th November - 20th December 2025; from 15
1974. An Armenian family fleeing a civil war, arrives in the UK with £35, a suitcase and the address of a relative. But that’s nothing new for them. They’ve already had to flee a genocide.
1976. One careless mistake. Nine months and one near-fatal C-section later, Karen Mary Bedrossian is born into a perfectly fine life and grows up in a perfectly fine house in Richmond, Surrey. But inside her lies a secret, deep, dark pain that rips her to shreds on a daily basis…
1994. Karen’s 18, homeless, penniless, and her only friends are a couple of heroin addicts and criminals. The solution? Start again. Become a famous pop star. Then everyone would love and admire her, and she’d be whole.
Developed with the Finborough Theatre, where it was first seen in an acclaimed 2022 run, Darkie Armo Girl is an OffWestEnd Award-nominated play from British-Armenian writer and performer Karine Bedrossian about surviving life with the innocence of a child, but the destructive self-abandonment of a suicide bomber.
