‘In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun’ is Houmi Miura’s feted one-woman show; a surreal and witty quest to find history’s iconic Japanese women.

Houmi Miura’s bedroom is plastered with posters of her childhood heroes, including Marilyn Monroe, Mel B and the odd Tudor Queen. She has spent her whole life unquestioningly adoring them, but one day the penny drops: none of the women look like her. She’s never actually sought out heroes that share her heritage, and that’s where her quest begins as she seeks to celebrate centuries of iconic, badass, Japanese women. It’s a show that gives us a window on an 11th century samurai, two powerhouse suffragettes, and a legendary queen. This (mostly) autobiographical show has already won rare praise and now it’s here in the north-east. Do not miss.

In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun, 25 & 26 September, Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle, 7.30pm, £15 (concessions £7.50 & £3), alphabettitheatre.co.uk