The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has made the dreams of many aspiring performers, and shattered those of many more. But for Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen, the two halves of RashDash, it’s now an old stalking ground, where their latest endeavour, Two Man Show, notched up three awards last summer. Fresh from a run at the Soho Theatre, it comes to Cambridge Junction for just one night on 4th October.

It’s the latest of a line of shows by the pair – who have been working together since they met as undergraduates at the University of Hull – to engage with themes of feminism and gender identity. For the duo, the Two Man Show is a narrative and a piece of entertainment, but it’s first and foremost a vehicle to promote the questioning of gender boundaries on a social level, and particularly, introspection on a personal level. “People are coming away with more questions than answers, which I think is great, actually,” Helen says. “The Two Man Show is very interrogatory, but it doesn’t have a clear message to deliver, as such... it’s much more complex than that.”

Feminism is not boring, but let’s be clear that this is not two women on a stage talking about oppression. The show follows the narrative of John and Dan, two men determined that their experience, at least, does not corroborate the idea that men wield a disproportionate amount of power in this world. There is music, laughter, dancing, and Twitter can attest to the fact that at least one unsuspecting audience member has been shocked by the full-frontal nudity. Meanwhile, one of the awards they took away from the Fringe was The Scotsman Fringe First Award.

Like a modern As You Like It, the basis for the show’s clout is the irony of its setup: two women play two women trying to play two men. Given the duo’s insistence that “the words that exist aren’t good enough” when it comes to talking about patriarchy and masculinity, it will be interesting to see how music and physicality, the two other cornerstones of RashDash’s theatrical style, impact their message. After all, studies have shown that adopting conventionally masculine physical behaviours, such as gait and leg-spreading, are linked to a rise in confidence among female participants. So has actually embodying masculinity changed the actors’ perception of it at all? The answer: Greenland and Goalen have chosen to ditch conventional masculinity in favour of what looks to prove a riotous and deliberately overblown stereotype. “We do explore masculinity physically in the show,” allows Goalen. “But I’d say it’s a hyper-masculinity, and it doesn’t feel like we’re trying to replicate or explore anything real or natural, or what it is to be a man everyday. I feel like we’re exploring the essence of something and then exploding it and making it huge.”

Nevertheless, the Two Man Show also promises an interesting glimpse into a woman’s perception of what it is like to inhabit a man’s body. “As an experience it feels kind of wild, kind of liberating but also full of anger and rage.” But Goalen is keen to remind us that the show looks at gender from more than one perspective: “It explores what it is to be a woman as well: what it is to be a woman who can take someone else’s weight, and be very caring and very strong.”

Now they’re away from Edinburgh and London, RashDash are keen to reach out to new audience members, people who have not previously experienced or engaged with feminist discourses. “I hope it will ask people to question themselves, question their lives, the lives that they want to lead,” says Goalen. “Above all, I hope it will stop people from judging themselves as much for being who they are.”

Two Man Show comes to the Junction on 4th October. Tickets still available online at junction.co.uk