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Too fat for china

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Too Fat for China
Phoebe Potts

​Hometown: 
Gloucester, Massachusetts
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SOCIAL MEDIA:
Website - http://toofatforchina.com
Instagram - @getmephoebepotts
Facebook - phoebe.potts.35

SHOWTIMES:
​​Friday 7/18 at 8:30 pm
Saturday 7/19 at 8:30 pm
​​
LOCATION: 
​​Teatro Ecas
​​
TICKET PRICE:
$20
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DESCRIPTION OF PIECE

TOO FAT FOR CHINA is an award winning solo show about adoption, the transatlantic slave trade, capitalism, zoloft and sea turtles. TFFC follows Phoebe Potts, comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby. After a US adoption goes horribly wrong, Potts finds herself surprised, disgusted and ultimately resigned to the role she plays as a middle class white lady in the business of adopting babies in the US and internationally. Potts’ tragicomic journey is about all the terrible things she did to get more- life, love and family.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Phoebe Potts is a comedic storyteller, graphic artist and professional Jew. Her show TOO FAT FOR CHINA has sold out the Suffolk’s Modern Theatre in Boston, the Den Theatre in Chicago, the Gloucester Stage Company and a three week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it received rave reviews. TFFC is the sequel to Potts’ critically acclaimed graphic novel “Good Eggs” (HarperCollins). TFFC recently won “Best Storytelling Show” at the United Solo Show Festival in NYC.

FRINGE 2025: July 13-26, 2025


​FRINGEPVD : The Providence Fringe Festival®
​​IS PRESENTED BY
 THE WILBURY THEATRE GROUP
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  • Home
  • 2025 Shows
    • 50% of Presence
    • A Wolf in Ex's Clothing
    • Actress Waiting to Audition
    • An Outer Bounds Sketch Comedy Show
    • And the Band Plays On
    • Apocalypse King; Or, the legacy of small hands (an anti-anti intellectual play) also known as, No one panic! It’s just late stage capitalism!
    • Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale
    • Blue Cow Bells: Six Short Plays
    • Cabaret Jeté
    • Childhood Nostalgia
    • Chin Up
    • CHRONIC PAin au chocolat
    • Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins
    • Connecting the Dots
    • Drunken Folk Music
    • Escape from the Zoo
    • Fatso Goes to McDonald's (and other short plays)
    • fidget. spinster.
    • Folk Music for the 21st Century
    • franny keeps live
    • God and Manic Depression
    • Golden Arches
    • How Much Can You Change for Someone You Love?
    • How to Get a Second Husband
    • husk/vessel
    • I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
    • I Love You, Satan
    • In A Minute
    • Jacob and the Jellyfish
    • Life's Canvas
    • Literary Monsters
    • Marge the Pizza Presents: A Slice of Life
    • Me'leven
    • MetroGnome: A Fully Improvised Musical
    • Modern Butchood
    • Morality Play
    • Ms. Steak's Mistakes
    • Murder, Meth and Mayhem: a folk opera
    • Escape from the Zoo
    • Obsessive Comedy Disorder
    • Of Petals and Fire
    • One Dead, One Alive
    • Oops! All Songs - One Providence Place: A Mall Musical
    • Persistence
    • Pierrot < 3 Moon
    • Piggy Wants to Fly
    • PROMISCUOUS METALS
    • RHODE DAWN!!!
    • Shelter from the Storm
    • The Call to Adventure: An Improvised Epic
    • THE CALLING, or BROKE
    • "The Clothes Make The Man: A Loving Satire On 'Mrkn Fashion Featuring 'The Man In White' And The Developing Country Band"
    • the estate sale
    • The Farm
    • The Fear is Becoming Normal
    • The Gospel According to Susan: Confessions of a (Transgender) Serial Killer
    • The Greatest Betrayal
    • The Lady of Shalott
    • The Navel Gazers
    • The Stronger
    • The Waste Land
    • Too Fat for China
    • Travel “Whore”: The Backside of International Relations
    • Trolley Stop(s)
    • Two Passengers
    • Unscripted: The Everchanging One Act Play
    • Whatever Fate Decides
    • When Cayden Came
    • WomenInShorts Part Deux
    • "Would I Lie to You?" Played by PIG Performers
    • Zauber Magic Flute Enchantée
  • Special Events
    • "Let's Fringe!" Opening Night Party
    • Busking at the Fringe!
    • Open Mic Night
    • Motion State Arts Dance Classes
    • Artist Mixer
    • Sims Ave Fest + Family Fringe!
    • Haus of Codec LGBTQQIA+ Resource Fair & ART Marketplace
    • ACCESSIBILITY IS BEAUTIFUL
    • Playwrights’ Mixer @ LitArts RI
    • Closing Party
  • Venues
    • 50 SIMS
    • ALCO
    • Buttonwoods Brewery
    • Farm Fresh
    • ISCO
    • LitArts RI
    • Riffraff
    • Teatro ECAS
    • The Providence Drum Troupe Clubhouse
    • The Steel Yard
    • WaterFire Arts Center
    • Wilbury Theatre Group
  • About
    • FAQ's
    • About The Wilbury Theatre Group
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