BICYCLE FACE
by Evie Fehilly and Rachel Fowler
Bicycle Face is an all-female,
overtly queer, utterly joyful call to the Revolution!
Synopsis:
1885, England. Lettice is in love with her maid, Mabel and sneaks out one night so that Mabel can teach her to ride a bicycle. Lots of wobbles, tumbles and giggles.
She returns to her room, hair wild, face flushed, to find her husband (played by a dragking) weeping on her bed with Dr Smecknoddle (also played by a drag king) waiting, imposingly. They diagnose her with bicycle face and promise to take good care of her. Lettice relents.
When Lettice finds out Mabel’s been dismissed, she gathers her courage, finds the bicycle and wobblily rides to find her.
Lettice catches up to Mabel, and grabs her face saying “I don’t care if Queen Victoria thinks women don’t do this!” and kisses her deeply. The two women ride off together, all the way to sufferage!
Why Now?
This funny and anarchic short film seeks to pedal forward by looking back in an irreverent and anachronistic way. Today, women across the globe are losing freedoms that previous generations fought and died for. To protect the future for generations of women, trans, and non-binary individuals, we must understand our past and the tools our foremothers used to create change and achieve emancipation, as well as the insidious forces that continue to oppose them.
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About the Creators:
Rachel Fowler, an award-winning actress and filmmaker, and Evie Fehilly, an award-winning filmmaker and drag king, bring this story to life using drag kings, comedy, clowning, and absurdly inept bicycle chases. "Bicycle Face" is a hilarious, overtly queer, and utterly joyful call to revolution in every sense!
MEET THE TEAM
We are dedicated to diversity in our creative team, behind and in front of the camera.
EVIE FENHILLY is an award winning performer, writer and film maker. Fehilly studied at the renowned theatre school, L’ecole Gaulier in Paris and since then has worked extensively in theatre and cabaret. In 2019 Fehilly won Europe’s largest Drag King competition, ‘Man Up’ and was a 2021 Evolve artist at the Oxford Playhouse. Fehilly took part in The Royal Court Writers’ Group and has worked extensively in adult sex education.
Evie is developing film and television projects with several production companies and has a feature film in development with The BFI. Period Drama was Evie's graduation film from The Met Film School, where she studied for an MA in directing for film and TV.
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Evie Fehilly, Writer/Director