A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

ENTRE NOUS

by Kay Kassanda

What do we owe the people who raised us?

What do we owe the people who broke us?

And what do we owe each other—entre nous—when love and survival collide?

Entre Nous is a searing, intimate new play about two Congolese sisters brought together after years of silence.

Set within the confines of a therapy room and park benches across London, Entre Nous explores sisterhood, displacement, trauma, foster care, and the dangerous comfort of silence. With razor-sharp dialogue, moments of unexpected warmth, and unflinching emotional candour, the play asks whether reconciliation is always the answer—or whether survival sometimes means letting go.

Tender, funny, devastating, and fiercely human, Entre Nous is a story about love in its messiest form, the scars we inherit, and the courage it takes to stay when walking away might be easier.

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

"The world changes; I don't. The years go by, and I’m still looking perfect. With my golden hair, my golden clothes, with my golden smile."

This is the story of a perfect woman. Her whole life, she just followed the instructions society – and her mum – dictated to help her achieve a happy and successful life. "A perfect life."

But... was it perfect?

Away from her dreams and what she could have become if she'd had the chance to take decisions on her own, she's now recounting her story while she can remember it, alone with the shadows of her past, and listening to a song she listened to on the radio a long time ago, and that helped her to endure her life... because songs are a refuge for lost souls.

Stairway to Heaven is a one-woman show written and directed by Mexican Award-winning playwright Isabel Quiroz and performed by Thelma Osorio Euan.

This play is part of "Songs of Freedom" a series of monologues written by Isabel Quiroz where each story entitled after a song, gives voice to a silenced character. Inspired in real life people.

You/We tells the story of the artist Gluck — sharp-tongued, stylish, and utterly unwilling to behave. Living in open defiance of traditional gender rules, sexual silence, and polite society, Gluck’s life is a whirlwind of love affairs, artistic ambition, heartbreak, and reinvention. 

Witty, intimate, and quietly radical, this solo play explores the fierce joy of self-invention and the cost of insisting on truth in a world that would rather you stayed convenient.

Written and performed by Claire Storey

Irene and Arjyll have the same last name but they’re not related.

Although, with the way Irene’s mother Ignacia is acting, they might as well be sisters. Tita Iggy is, after all, president of the Arjyll’s Angels Loyola Heights Chapter, a local self-organised group made of middle-aged Titas keen on supporting Arjyll's emerging showbiz career after winning the latest season of Pinoy Big Brother.

Irene knows it's not Arjyll's fault that her relationship with her mother is the way it is but it's hard to remember that sometimes especially in the face of the obvious favouritism.

Written by Glerren Bangalan, Mother Ignacia is a heartfelt comedy about learning how to advocate for yourself.

Irene and Arjyll have the same last name but they’re not related.

Although, with the way Irene’s mother Ignacia is acting, they might as well be sisters. Tita Iggy is, after all, president of the Arjyll’s Angels Loyola Heights Chapter, a local self-organised group made of middle-aged Titas keen on supporting Arjyll's emerging showbiz career after winning the latest season of Pinoy Big Brother.

Irene knows it's not Arjyll's fault that her relationship with her mother is the way it is but it's hard to remember that sometimes especially in the face of the obvious favouritism.

Written by Glerren Bangalan, Mother Ignacia is a heartfelt comedy about learning how to advocate for yourself.

You/We tells the story of the artist Gluck — sharp-tongued, stylish, and utterly unwilling to behave. Living in open defiance of traditional gender rules, sexual silence, and polite society, Gluck’s life is a whirlwind of love affairs, artistic ambition, heartbreak, and reinvention. 

Witty, intimate, and quietly radical, this solo play explores the fierce joy of self-invention and the cost of insisting on truth in a world that would rather you stayed convenient.

Written and performed by Claire Storey

Art is pain. Pain is art. Two “definitely not masochistic” artists take on the challenge of a lifetime: to create musical comedy with feeling—while feeling the real pain of electrocution.

In what may be their worst idea yet, veteran musical improvisers Lee Apsey ('CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation,' 'Your Flaws: The Improvised Musical') and Jayda Fogel ('Bird & Tax Collector,' '¡Horario Estelar!') weave hilarious and sincere songs, sketches, and stories with the inspiration of the audience and the threat of being shocked, shackled, dunked, and beaten with a stick.

You’ll be shocked, and so will the players—literally.

From the award-winning co-creator of multiple Edinburgh Fringe sell-out hit 'CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation.'

“Astonishingly funny… brilliant concept.” ★★★★★ GJD REVIEWS

“Apsey and Fogel turn painful displays into some of the funniest improvised comedy you can find. You will be begging for more, and more, and more.” FRINGE REVIEW

 Artist Praise & Accolades:

WINNER - The Comedy Award - Colchester Fringe 2024

WINNER - Best Improv/Musical - Leicester Comedy Festival 2023

NOMINATED - Simply the Best - Gothenburg Fringe 2024

"A truly fantastic show that you will talk about for years to come" ★★★★★ THEATRE AND TONIC

"So funny it would be a crime to miss it!" ★★★★★ CURTAIN CALL REVIEWS

"Improv down to a fine art. A novel idea, executed superbly" ★★★★★ WEE REVIEW 

It's a wild ride. After internationally touring the “cathartic, creative, and healing” performance "Dad, Playboy, & Me...Not Your Average Slideshow" storyteller A.G. Norton is coming back to London with a totally new hour of cosmic transmissions, hilarious insights, and of course the shamanic Pussy Drum. AG's gone from being a social worker in Dagenham, to interviewing Playboy Bunnies, to being called a bubble cult leader. All in loving service to the divine power of the Holy Queerit. The work has been referred to as "deeply blasphemous" by a seminarian Catholic priest on a bench in Times Square, which honestly is a great review and the show isn't even polished yet.

The Circus of Healing has one destination - collective LIBERATION. Join the congregation, bubble blessings. 🫧🫧

You can check out the artists work here @notyouraverageslideshow Instagram or www.vivelapin.com

Ever wonder how a musical is actually born? 🎹 VOICE NOTES invites you into the writer's room for an intimate evening of music and conversation. Our featured composers will guide you through their latest works, sharing the "how" and the "why" behind the notes. It’s a rare chance to hear the evolution of a song directly from the person who wrote it! Join us for An Evening of New Musical Theatre Writing and support up-coming composers as they step, with their music, into the spotlight!

Can you seduce someone, even if they know you sleep with a weighted blanket?

That’s the question we all ask, whilst laying alone under our "Silent Night Washable Weighted Blanket" with removable cover. Now available in grey.

In his latest absurd outing, silly and surreal comedian Ben O’sullivan will try desperately to avoid talking about his intimacy issues, whilst allowing the full burden of his romantic failings to land on the, already heavy, weighted blanket.

Similar to a bed at your nans house, this show consists of many incomprehensible layers. We find out if pigeons are underrated and consider the potential jeopardy of getting a piercing at 31. Could it be a cry for help?

Together, we will finally uncover the truth hidden beneath the tog ratings.

‘Ben reminds me of a young James Acaster and look what he achieved’

Everything theatre

‘Side splittingly brilliant’

welovebrighton

'Amusingly quirky’

Chortle

'Succession' meets 'Saltburn': The Prince follows Miles, a fresher at Oxford, as he is swept up in attempts to climb the ranks of the Oxford Union - the University's famous debating society and the birthplace of many a political career. As noble intentions fall to the allure of power, fewer and fewer holds are barred in this tussle to the top of the greasy pole of politics.

'Succession' meets 'Saltburn': The Prince follows Miles, a fresher at Oxford, as he is swept up in attempts to climb the ranks of the Oxford Union - the University's famous debating society and the birthplace of many a political career. As noble intentions fall to the allure of power, fewer and fewer holds are barred in this tussle to the top of the greasy pole of politics.

The story of a young man who decides to sell his body online.

The story of a young man who decides to sell his body online.

'Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions' invites you to a frazzled rather than filtered celebration of self-improvement. Blending humour, parodies and musical theatre Susan Grant and Joni de Winter bring you laughter, killer harmonies and a hint of self depreciation. This show proves that perfection is overrated and re-inventing yourself can be just as fun as it is frustrating.
Belle Street Productions are a Dorset based theatre company with previous shows including the award winning 'Hugh: The Musical' and The Rat Pack Gals.

'Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions' invites you to a frazzled rather than filtered celebration of self-improvement. Blending humour, parodies and musical theatre Susan Grant and Joni de Winter bring you laughter, killer harmonies and a hint of self depreciation. This show proves that perfection is overrated and re-inventing yourself can be just as fun as it is frustrating.
Belle Street Productions are a Dorset based theatre company with previous shows including the award winning 'Hugh: The Musical' and The Rat Pack Gals.

Can men and women really be friends? They asked in 1989, and we are finding out tonight. Is the sexual attraction too much to bear, and are platonic relationships just for the unattractive? On the cusp of Katie and Matt’s 7-year anniversary, they are forced to confront what they want out of their relationship. Are they friends or merely carefully positioned allies? They have one final night to discover if their friendship can survive the transition to a relationship. Are they really in love, or have they indulged too much in the Rom-Coms?

From the food waste bin into which her friend had a nervous breakdown, Lia tries to make sense of the twenty years she spent serving food and drink. Crying into Bins chronicles tales collected over two decades and takes shape as a long-form spoken word poem. But expect a little more than one woman and a microphone. This is a fast-paced and funny poetical exploration of mental health, societal structures, terrible rage and bittersweet acceptance.

“I have spent my adult life shovelling leftover potato fondants into my mouth in the vain hope that the sheer volume might make up for the lack of company, posh dress and dinner music they were designed for”

Three teams, one hour, infinite fun. Join us for a night of London's finest and funniest improv teams: Burn The Script, Scamps, and Silent Soundtrack, hosted by Sylvie Tamar. All proceeds from this show will be donated to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund in Minnesota, USA. Come laugh with us!

Can men and women really be friends? They asked in 1989, and we are finding out tonight. Is the sexual attraction too much to bear, and are platonic relationships just for the unattractive? On the cusp of Katie and Matt’s 7-year anniversary, they are forced to confront what they want out of their relationship. Are they friends or merely carefully positioned allies? They have one final night to discover if their friendship can survive the transition to a relationship. Are they really in love, or have they indulged too much in the Rom-Coms?

What if a book wasn’t just something you read but something you live?
A curated collection of stories you step into; experienced through your senses.
Words leave the page and the audience dissolves into the narrative.
One immersive experience, guided by the voice of its author.
An intimate encounter between storyteller and listener.
Welcome to Frida Rivero’s Midnight Reflections, where the audience is part of the act.

Sh*t & Sunshine

Kat François presents a whirlwind of comedic storytelling, poetry, stand-up and unforgettable characters. Hold onto your seat as Kat invites you into the quirky ups and downs of her crazy, messy world, a world full of sh*t but also full of sunshine.

Strong

Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou

Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.

Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.

Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.

Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.

Finally: comedy and poetry gold in the unlikely form of two past-it grey birds - or are they?  Trigger warning, lots of smut and scatology, bathos, fat-shaming and tonnes of belly laughs.  Seasoned comic poets Heather Mary Sullivan and Anna Somerset team up in a hilarious comic journey around being a lady-bird of in an age of uncertainty.  

Strong

Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou

Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.

Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.

Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.

Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.

Irene and Arjyll have the same last name but they’re not related.

Although, with the way Irene’s mother Ignacia is acting, they might as well be sisters. Tita Iggy is, after all, president of the Arjyll’s Angels Loyola Heights Chapter, a local self-organised group made of middle-aged Titas keen on supporting Arjyll's emerging showbiz career after winning the latest season of Pinoy Big Brother.

Irene knows it's not Arjyll's fault that her relationship with her mother is the way it is but it's hard to remember that sometimes especially in the face of the obvious favouritism.

Written by Glerren Bangalan, Mother Ignacia is a heartfelt comedy about learning how to advocate for yourself.

Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan writer, poet and performance poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos within their ancestral communities.

Finally: comedy and poetry gold in the unlikely form of two past-it grey birds - or are they?  Trigger warning, lots of smut and scatology, bathos, fat-shaming and tonnes of belly laughs.  Seasoned comic poets Heather Mary Sullivan and Anna Somerset team up in a hilarious comic journey around being a lady-bird of in an age of uncertainty.  

You/We tells the story of the artist Gluck — sharp-tongued, stylish, and utterly unwilling to behave. Living in open defiance of traditional gender rules, sexual silence, and polite society, Gluck’s life is a whirlwind of love affairs, artistic ambition, heartbreak, and reinvention.

Witty, intimate, and quietly radical, this solo play explores the fierce joy of self-invention and the cost of insisting on truth in a world that would rather you stayed convenient.

Written and performed by Claire Storey

Strong

Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou

Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.

Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.

Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.

Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.

Strong

Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou

Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.

Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.

Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.

Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.

Jo spent 25 years as a Police Officer, retiring as a senior detective. Now, Jo is a master source trans-channel and shadow shifter, light language channel and high frequency artist here to return you to your multidimensional soul truth. Jo has channelled her first book - The Book of Codes - which contains 55 light code artworks, part memoir and part channelled writings direct from her guides The Fleet. The book is a transformational journey into your  remembering. 

“Harry and Dillon are fourteen, best friends, and virgins. Something’s got to change.

On the eve of the school disco, their plan sets into motion a spiralling story of sycamore trees and first kisses.

As the sky turns black, Harry, Dillon, and an ensemble of men will take to dismantling history, setting into motion an uncertain future.”

SYCAMORE, inspired by the 2022 felling of the sycamore gap tree, questions the stories we tell ourselves and the men we’re raising.

Through a Judas Window

Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch

"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."

Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.

Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.

Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.

This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.

Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.

Sam and Gary are not friends. They would likely never be friends. But could they be allies to each other?
They exist in a world where, depending on which day of the week you are born, you are assigned as a Corpus or a Creare, which dictates the careers you can have and the way you can live your life.
Only a weary, stubborn Judge can reassign you if you are unhappy with your given identity.
Gary, however, has brought his court hearing on himself through road rage. For a righteous cause, he insists.
When the Chaperone registers them on their clipboard, the waiting begins.

Through a Judas Window

Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch

"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."

Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.

Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.

Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.

This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.

Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.

“Gabe is a perfectly average teenager, with perfectly average problems… except he is best friends with god and the devil. Gabe will have to navigate teenage life all while keeping two omnipotent beings in tow. GCSE stress… if only!”
What the show’s about:
Welcome, to the weird and wonderful world of God, the devil and me, a one hour 10 minute surreal Brechtian comedy about a strange friendship that feels too good to be true and blurs the lines of “good” or “bad.” Oh, also… the protagonist has psychosis. This quirky coming of age comedy, with a good omens meets Jojo rabbit vibe, explores religion, teenage experience,

mental illness and family with humour, joy and heart. The overall message is, people with psychosis are, well… people, like everyone else (and omnipotent beings are… not).

Have you ever wondered what having two omnipotent beings on your shoulder might feel like? Then do we have the show for you.

Pulled earrings. Slit wrists. Chopped veins. T-rex arms.
Eva is just a regular rat racer. Single mother to a 6-year-old boy, she is stuck in a world that keeps punching her down, andis desperately trying to play the game – pay the bills, get him to football, try to survive mum’s comments.

But her mind has different plans. On the way to an important job interview, Eva gets bombarded by a series of ever-worsening intrusive thoughts.

So prepare for the uncomfortable and dive into Eva’s mind. Guided by Arthur, a grotesque, sadistic, half-real figure, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.

Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+

“Gabe is a perfectly average teenager, with perfectly average problems… except he is best friends with god and the devil. Gabe will have to navigate teenage life all while keeping two omnipotent beings in tow. GCSE stress… if only!”
What the show’s about:
Welcome, to the weird and wonderful world of God, the devil and me, a one hour 10 minute surreal Brechtian comedy about a strange friendship that feels too good to be true and blurs the lines of “good” or “bad.” Oh, also… the protagonist has psychosis. This quirky coming of age comedy, with a good omens meets Jojo rabbit vibe, explores religion, teenage experience,

mental illness and family with humour, joy and heart. The overall message is, people with psychosis are, well… people, like everyone else (and omnipotent beings are… not).

Have you ever wondered what having two omnipotent beings on your shoulder might feel like? Then do we have the show for you.

Through a Judas Window

Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch

"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."

Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.

Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.

Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.

This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.

Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.

'Unscheduled' follows two strangers, a Hairdresser and a Student, who meet by chance beneath the clock at Waterloo Station. Over a series of unexpected encounters across the years, their lives slowly intertwine, revealing how family, work, class, and culture shape who we become. Funny, sharp, and quietly devastating, this new play takes a bold look at modern life and what happens when the people who change us most arrive without warning.

Pulled earrings. Slit wrists. Chopped veins. T-rex arms.
Eva is just a regular rat racer. Single mother to a 6-year-old boy, she is stuck in a world that keeps punching her down, andis desperately trying to play the game – pay the bills, get him to football, try to survive mum’s comments.

But her mind has different plans. On the way to an important job interview, Eva gets bombarded by a series of ever-worsening intrusive thoughts.

So prepare for the uncomfortable and dive into Eva’s mind. Guided by Arthur, a grotesque, sadistic, half-real figure, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.

Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+

'Unscheduled' follows two strangers, a Hairdresser and a Student, who meet by chance beneath the clock at Waterloo Station. Over a series of unexpected encounters across the years, their lives slowly intertwine, revealing how family, work, class, and culture shape who we become. Funny, sharp, and quietly devastating, this new play takes a bold look at modern life and what happens when the people who change us most arrive without warning.

The Songs My Mother Used to Sing by Fran Isherwood

Poems, a monologue or two, and the (very) odd song including some written using wordplayful constraints such as anagrams and antonyms, address the vagaries of the present while sporting the reading glasses of the past.  Warning: May contain puns.

A playfully humorous and occasionally moving spoken word show that incorporates poetry, a monologue or two, and the (very) odd song. Were you sung to as a child? Did you sing lullabies to your own children? Were traditional folk songs passed down through generations? Perhaps there’s a song you learned at school that has stuck with you despite (or perhaps because of) ear-piercing renditions on the recorder. This show will look at how these songs reflect the mood of the time, whether the lyrics are still relevant, and if they help to shape who we are. Although looking back through the medium of old songs, it allows us to look at now. Some of the poems were developed through a variety of sometimes daft methods and ‘Translations’ including Anagrams, Predictive Text, and Scrabble.

Penguin the Fish is a one hour solo clown show about a fish that was cut in half when Moses parted the Red Sea. Since then, he wanders the Earth, trying to be whole again. He is also Moses’ sub. Follow him as he discovers the meaning of wholeness, and emancipates himself from Moses and old traditions to embrace his own way of living. Penguin the Fish is clown show on the difficulties of being an anti-zionist Queer Jew since October 2023, and asks questions such as: what does a Queer Jewish body represent on stage? How does one carry on being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza? How to emancipate from an entity using our identity for genocide? And is it possible to do a happy Jewish show?

What happens when we dare to step into the life of the “other” with an open heart that sings a song of our shared humanity?

2024 Hollywood Fringe 6-time nominee and winner of the Best Solo Performance Award, Handala is a solo show written and performed by Myriam Ali-Ahmad.

Writer and performer Ali-Ahmad has interviewed Palestinians that have lived in their homeland, about life experiences that, to them, represent Palestine and highlight the beauty of its people, land and culture. Seeking to honor Palestinian life and voices, she has worked to compile these stories into a solo show with the direction of Valeria Muñoz Reyes.

Through the arts of drama, poetry, song and storytelling, Handala takes audiences on a journey in Palestine, sailing from one Palestinian to another, navigating the ups and downs of the land, through stories of love, life and resistance, and telling the real story of Palestine, in the eyes of its dignified people. A celebration of Palestine and Palestinian life, this tour de force is a call for action to preserve such beauty.

The show premiered at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival where it had a successful sold-out run of 5 shows. Handala’s next moved to the 2024 Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by the United Solo Festival in New York in October - the world’s largest solo show festival. Now, Handala makes its UK debut alongside the Women Writers’ Festival!

Ali-Ahmad says: “For so long, Palestinians specifically and Arabs in general have been reduced to either victims or terrorists, a narrative that has been reinforced by the horrors in Gaza and the West Bank. We want to challenge and shift this narrative all while introducing the public to the rich and beautiful culture and people of Palestine, reminding us what we are fighting for. In and of itself, this project is an act of resistance against cultural erasure. Against those who wish to destroy our stories and our history.”

Come and watch the Normal Girl Productions short film slate with us:

• Echoes, directed by Fiona Kruschnig

• A Sin de Fella Story, directed by Sheryn Yidi

• PLUG, directed by Fiona Kruschnig

• Stranded, directed by John Moschopoulos

All short films championing women, either in front of or behind the camera.

After the screening, join us at the pub for a fun and casual networking session. We hope to see you there!

What happens when we dare to step into the life of the “other” with an open heart that sings a song of our shared humanity?

2024 Hollywood Fringe 6-time nominee and winner of the Best Solo Performance Award, Handala is a solo show written and performed by Myriam Ali-Ahmad.

Writer and performer Ali-Ahmad has interviewed Palestinians that have lived in their homeland, about life experiences that, to them, represent Palestine and highlight the beauty of its people, land and culture. Seeking to honor Palestinian life and voices, she has worked to compile these stories into a solo show with the direction of Valeria Muñoz Reyes.

Through the arts of drama, poetry, song and storytelling, Handala takes audiences on a journey in Palestine, sailing from one Palestinian to another, navigating the ups and downs of the land, through stories of love, life and resistance, and telling the real story of Palestine, in the eyes of its dignified people. A celebration of Palestine and Palestinian life, this tour de force is a call for action to preserve such beauty.

The show premiered at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival where it had a successful sold-out run of 5 shows. Handala’s next moved to the 2024 Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by the United Solo Festival in New York in October - the world’s largest solo show festival. Now, Handala makes its UK debut alongside the Women Writers’ Festival!

Ali-Ahmad says: “For so long, Palestinians specifically and Arabs in general have been reduced to either victims or terrorists, a narrative that has been reinforced by the horrors in Gaza and the West Bank. We want to challenge and shift this narrative all while introducing the public to the rich and beautiful culture and people of Palestine, reminding us what we are fighting for. In and of itself, this project is an act of resistance against cultural erasure. Against those who wish to destroy our stories and our history.”

Pulled earrings. Slit wrists. Chopped veins. T-rex arms.
Eva is just a regular rat racer. Single mother to a 6-year-old boy, she is stuck in a world that keeps punching her down, andis desperately trying to play the game – pay the bills, get him to football, try to survive mum’s comments.

But her mind has different plans. On the way to an important job interview, Eva gets bombarded by a series of ever-worsening intrusive thoughts.

So prepare for the uncomfortable and dive into Eva’s mind. Guided by Arthur, a grotesque, sadistic, half-real figure, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.

Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+

Strong

Written & Directed by Maria Georgiou

Strong is the powerful debut work of British-Cypriot writer and director Maria Georgiou, featuring an all-British-Cypriot creative team.

Based on a true story, Strong is a one-woman show that delves into the complexities of loss, faith, grief, joy, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. Through the eyes of Elena, a British Greek Cypriot single mother of two, the audience is taken on an emotional yet bittersweet journey, filled with both humour and heartbreak.

Elena’s world is turned upside down when her 15-year-old daughter Lia is diagnosed with cancer. Thrust into a new and unfamiliar reality, she struggles to juggle her spiralling career, endless hospital visits, and the demands of her well-intentioned but often overwhelming Greek Cypriot family — all during the uncertainty of a global pandemic.

To process these overwhelming events, Elena takes to walking. As she walks, she shares her fears and stories, sometimes through her thoughts and other times through voice-notes to her best friend Charoulla. The emotional weight of her journey is symbolised by the growing number of objects she carries on stage, representing the cultural, personal, and emotional burdens she shoulders.

Despite the heaviness of her circumstances, Strong is ultimately a celebration of the human capacity to endure, adapt, and find hope even in the darkest moments. It reminds us that there is strength in vulnerability, love, laughter, and simply putting one foot in front of the other.

Below ground in a large bunker remains the Mitchell family, chosen by God and by circumstance, they unite together as a family during the pivotal brink of war. Everyone has secrets, will the righteous truth unfold, or will lies and manipulation take their toll. Belief controls this family; Paul believes he is speaking to God, Lauren believes she deserves a voice, Charlie believes he has the power, Gethsemane believes she is just a means to an end, and Bethany believes she can escape her pain. We invite the audience to listen, watch, and read between it all. To find their own ending, decide their own truth, and trust in their gut instinct.

Jess is young….ish and she getting married!... Probably. Life is good but her ADHD brain has bashed down the door and invited her down a tunnel of questions! Only she isn't totally sure if this is an annoying tunnel or actually a necessary exploration of self...

Is getting married uncool? Does she even want to be married? What does it mean to have a wedding and can you be a badass whilst living a simple life?

Should she be aiming for more.... or bigger?

As she tries on her wedding dress, Jess takes us down her unstoppable and hilarious curiosity spiral including thoughts on going to Bali, nice men, dancing and most importantly, cream carpets.

In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.

Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?

Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.

Pulled earrings. Slit wrists. Chopped veins. T-rex arms.
Eva is just a regular rat racer. Single mother to a 6-year-old boy, she is stuck in a world that keeps punching her down, andis desperately trying to play the game – pay the bills, get him to football, try to survive mum’s comments.

But her mind has different plans. On the way to an important job interview, Eva gets bombarded by a series of ever-worsening intrusive thoughts.

So prepare for the uncomfortable and dive into Eva’s mind. Guided by Arthur, a grotesque, sadistic, half-real figure, this two-hander surreal dark comedy will bring you on a journey that will shift your concept of normality.

Content warnings: Violent and graphic language, loud noises, swearing, flashing lights, suicidal references, balloon popping. Ages 16+

Below ground in a large bunker remains the Mitchell family, chosen by God and by circumstance, they unite together as a family during the pivotal brink of war. Everyone has secrets, will the righteous truth unfold, or will lies and manipulation take their toll. Belief controls this family; Paul believes he is speaking to God, Lauren believes she deserves a voice, Charlie believes he has the power, Gethsemane believes she is just a means to an end, and Bethany believes she can escape her pain. We invite the audience to listen, watch, and read between it all. To find their own ending, decide their own truth, and trust in their gut instinct.

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

Jess is young….ish and she getting married!... Probably. Life is good but her ADHD brain has bashed down the door and invited her down a tunnel of questions! Only she isn't totally sure if this is an annoying tunnel or actually a necessary exploration of self...

Is getting married uncool? Does she even want to be married? What does it mean to have a wedding and can you be a badass whilst living a simple life?

Should she be aiming for more.... or bigger?

As she tries on her wedding dress, Jess takes us down her unstoppable and hilarious curiosity spiral including thoughts on going to Bali, nice men, dancing and most importantly, cream carpets.

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

East to West is a queer love story told in rhymed spoken word, whose protagonists are based on opposite sides of London. Nell, an aspiring poet and part-time teacher, looks through dating apps for a balm for the isolation induced by chronic illness. Asha sizes up East London’s cool trendiness against her native Mumbai and misses the family she left behind there, from whom her queer identity remains a secret. When Asha and Nell connect on a dating app, mutual excitement and a whirlwind date create a pull to spend more together. Yet the pressures they each face are stacking up in a city whose fabric is becoming increasingly tense, frayed and hostile. As the political climate seeping in via their Instagram feeds triggers despair, can love be a safe space from the world’s bared teeth? And what will love do when those forces are no longer felt merely as soundbites, but come knocking at the door?

Suzie Depreli – not a typically Jewish name, is it? – brings you one woman's passive aggressive mission to educate the world about what it means to have an orthodox family that ate sausages, an Asian Catholic husband that uses more Yiddish words than her Nana, and celebrate Passover without believing in God. And that this is all ok! With original songs performed live and anecdotes that will have Jewish and gentile audiences alike feeling like they were present for it all, this is a heartfelt, humorous musical journey through the pressures and pitfalls of understanding your identity in a world full of prejudice. This is how to be Jew-ish in Britain today.  

Unloving is a dramatic deconstruction of Anna’s love life, baggage included. Hannah and Django take it upon themselves to re-enact their friend’s relationship from finish to start, and they want answers: how does love end? Why do we love each other the way we do? Is a theatre even the right place to tell this story?

For anyone who has found themselves ‘out of character’ in love, Unloving lifts the veil on how intimacy can make us come undone, the lasting ripple effects of lost love, and whether there is hope for any of us in the end.

Starring Hannah Chandler & Django Bevan

Written by Laura Derpic Burgos

Directed & Translated from the original Spanish by Miriam Price

A new work in development from Loan Word Theatre

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

LA is burning. When a pair of old Angelenos lose everything, they must navigate overwhelming grief, toxic ash and paperwork purgatory, surrounded by clueless celebs, soulless politicians and insurance vampires.
6000 miles away, their (very) anxious daughter is trying hard not to unravel.

Fringe Theatre Awards 2x nominee Burn Baby Burn: LA Inferno is a stripped-back, sharp-witted mix of storytelling, satire, and songs, exploring the human cost of climate change and the humans fanning the flames. Asking questions that nobody wants to answer like: why was LA’s biggest reservoir empty? What the hell is a ‘firenado’? And how did 80s icon Steve Guttenberg become a low-key hero?

“A retelling of an environmental and social catastrophe, with a dash of Californian whimsy.” - The Reviews Hub

In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.

Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?

Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.

Collect The Hearts is a post punk live music and spoken word performance by Rachel Mayfield Group. It is written and devised by the group’s front person, alt rock singer and literary artist, Rachel Mayfield, who has maintained a cult following since her 90s debut with the band delicious monster. Her uncompromising art documentary style music, film and writing is released as seasons, and her latest, ‘Collect the Hearts’ looks at ways to get lost to ultimately find ourselves, in an age

of technological reliance, economic structures, and land grabs. It explores the scope for freedom for the outsider character who seeks personal autonomy and mental freedom with likeminded travellers. Is the lived experience of the individual, the only way back to truth, peace and pleasure for the whole community?

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

Known for her online sketches and comedy characters, come and watch Imogen’s debut WIP. See if she can hold your attention for more than 30 seconds. Featuring her hard to watch characters, some new ideas, and a bit of cheeky stand up. Maybe bullying the audience a little too. Don’t worry there’ll be some screen time involved.

The publishing landscape for Black and brown writers has shifted dramatically in recent years, yet questions remain about authentic representation, market accessibility, and the responsibilities authors carry when crafting diverse characters.

Join three distinctive voices from Fly on the Wall Press — Sangeeta Mulay, Zahirra Dayal, and Arathi Menon — as they draw from their novels set across India and Zimbabwe to explore: the evolving career pathways and opportunities for writers of colour in today's industry; how the market for diverse fiction has transformed and where gaps persist; and the craft and responsibility of creating authentic characters that resist stereotypes while remaining true to lived experience.

This panel offers both practical insight for aspiring writers and a nuanced discussion of representation that goes beyond surface-level diversity conversations.

Chaired by the CEO of Fly on the Wall Press, Isabelle Kenyon

No One’s Land is a Forum Theatre performance following Bahar, a Turkish woman in her mid-thirties who flees years of domestic abuse and death threats from her ex-husband. Hoping to survive and reunite with her young daughter, she escapes to the UK hidden in a lorry arranged by smugglers.

Debt quickly traps her again. Forced to work for those who brought her, Bahar is unknowingly drawn into a criminal network and accused of carrying drug money. Arrested, she is detained in an immigration centre, where the play begins.

Inside detention, Bahar is reduced to a case number. A tense scene unfolds between Bahar, an interpreter, and a lawyer, exposing distance, procedure, and power.

As a Forum Theatre piece, No One’s Land invites the audience to intervene directly, offer suggestions, and change the dialogue between the characters. By stepping in, spectators are asked to imagine alternatives: What could have been done differently, who is truly listening, and how might systems be transformed to protect rather than punish people like Bahar?

Join Nick Bain and Martina O’Sullivan for a split-bill of sharp, affectionate standup comedy that will enable anyone to claim their very own Irish passport. From the joys of Catholicism to the realities of 90s Ireland this hour of comedy will indulge those born and bred, while gifting anyone else the skills to successfully defect. Expect big laughs as two homesick, and occasionally sick of home, comedians bring the best of Ireland to Camden Town.  

In this dark, fast-paced comedy, an ensemble cast — from kit men and canteen staff to kids and parents chasing Academy dreams — are caught up in the unpredictable, ever-shifting chaos of life in a Premier League Club, where loyalties unravel faster than transfers, sacrifices are made, and giving your best doesn’t always mean success. This eye-opening journey behind the scenes of The Beautiful Game is compelling, heart-breaking and – at times – very funny indeed.

1797. It’s wedding day in a small coastal town in Pembrokeshire – but three French revolutionary ships are spotted on the horizon.
They’re done for… right?

A historical comedy about resistance, myth-making, and the women who took up arms.

Set behind closed doors during the filming of Cleopatra, Beyond the Frame is an intimate, emotionally charged exploration of the moment Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s legendary affair begins. Two of the world’s most famous actors collide — not as icons, but as flawed, grieving, intoxicatingly alive human beings. As desire intensifies and private wounds surface, love becomes both refuge and threat, blurring the line between performance and truth. This rehearsed reading focuses on language, chemistry, and emotional tension, offering a stripped-back encounter with a love story that would scandalise the world — and change them forever.

Join Nick Bain and Martina O’Sullivan for a split-bill of sharp, affectionate standup comedy that will enable anyone to claim their very own Irish passport. From the joys of Catholicism to the realities of 90s Ireland this hour of comedy will indulge those born and bred, while gifting anyone else the skills to successfully defect. Expect big laughs as two homesick, and occasionally sick of home, comedians bring the best of Ireland to Camden Town.  

Jess is young….ish and she getting married!... Probably. Life is good but her ADHD brain has bashed down the door and invited her down a tunnel of questions! Only she isn't totally sure if this is an annoying tunnel or actually a necessary exploration of self...

Is getting married uncool? Does she even want to be married? What does it mean to have a wedding and can you be a badass whilst living a simple life?

Should she be aiming for more.... or bigger?

As she tries on her wedding dress, Jess takes us down her unstoppable and hilarious curiosity spiral including thoughts on going to Bali, nice men, dancing and most importantly, cream carpets.

In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.

Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?

Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.

1797. It’s wedding day in a small coastal town in Pembrokeshire – but three French revolutionary ships are spotted on the horizon.
They’re done for… right?

A historical comedy about resistance, myth-making, and the women who took up arms.

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Can you seduce someone, even if they know you sleep with a weighted blanket?

That’s the question we all ask, whilst laying alone under our "Silent Night Washable Weighted Blanket" with removable cover. Now available in grey.

In his latest absurd outing, silly and surreal comedian Ben O’sullivan will try desperately to avoid talking about his intimacy issues, whilst allowing the full burden of his romantic failings to land on the, already heavy, weighted blanket.

Similar to a bed at your nans house, this show consists of many incomprehensible layers. We find out if pigeons are underrated and consider the potential jeopardy of getting a piercing at 31. Could it be a cry for help?

Together, we will finally uncover the truth hidden beneath the tog ratings.

‘Ben reminds me of a young James Acaster and look what he achieved’

Everything theatre

‘Side splittingly brilliant’

welovebrighton

'Amusingly quirky’

Chortle

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Last year after a series of hospitalisations(likely an extended effect of Leicester’s extended lockdown) Nayonica read Matthew McConaughey's memoir Greenlights,which was marketed as a manual to turn life's "red lights" into "Greenlights". Only it turned out the red lights in Matthew's' life were that he was too handsome, too successful and had too many millions of dollars. So Nayonica, has created this hour of stand up in response for her fellow uglies and undesirables,looking back at all the red lights in her life.

During this comedy show Nayonica revisits all the times in her life when planning and doing the sensible thing ended up going wrong (like when she tried to eat healthily she got food poisoning from vegetables), then eventually turned out really well. Now, she’s left wondering if she should continue being logical and planning things or if she should just surrender to the chaos. This is definitely a far too philosophically and esoterically complex question for a stand up comedian to answer.

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Technology and humanity are the themes of Animal Sense. This immersive poetic performance in video and sound addresses the impact and influence of the acceleration of digital technology and artificial intelligence on daily life, and its personal and political implications. The poems are based on the bilingual chapbook Animal Sense/Tino animal, released in January 2026 by the Brazilian and British poet Rosane Carneiro (via Lunar Sheep). The author experiments with the power of poetry to expose a current moment of transition – the result is a disturbing debate about the relationship between society and digital resources, and subjective and/or collective attitudes that resist and/or incorporate contemporary technological offerings.

Poems: Rosane Carneiro
Music and Graphics: Ian Pakes

Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.

The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

Share a word or a memory and watch a poem come to life. Throughout the day, poet Emily Holtom will be creating bespoke poems live on a vintage typewriter, inspired by conversations with festival-goers. Visitors are invited to sit for a moment, share a word, a memory or a thought, and watch as a poem is typed in real time - each one a unique keepsake to take home and treasure.

Pop-Up Poetry offers a gentle pause within the festival - a chance to slow down, reflect and connect through words. Suitable for all ages, this drop-in experience welcomes anyone curious about poetry, creativity, or simply taking a moment to be present.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.

The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.

Known for her online sketches and comedy characters, come and watch Imogen’s debut WIP. See if she can hold your attention for more than 30 seconds. Featuring her hard to watch characters, some new ideas, and a bit of cheeky stand up. Maybe bullying the audience a little too. Don’t worry there’ll be some screen time involved.

Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.

The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

Technology and humanity are the themes of Animal Sense. This immersive poetic performance in video and sound addresses the impact and influence of the acceleration of digital technology and artificial intelligence on daily life, and its personal and political implications. The poems are based on the bilingual chapbook Animal Sense/Tino animal, released in January 2026 by the Brazilian and British poet Rosane Carneiro (via Lunar Sheep). The author experiments with the power of poetry to expose a current moment of transition – the result is a disturbing debate about the relationship between society and digital resources, and subjective and/or collective attitudes that resist and/or incorporate contemporary technological offerings.

Poems: Rosane Carneiro
Music and Graphics: Ian Pakes

Pardis, a land stuck girl, longs for freedom of the sea and the alluring song of Ayda, a mused mermaiden. In an attempt for the girl to exchange her skin for scales, the two meet at the shoreline to escape conformed ways and distrusting waves, dealing with rising tensions for a transformation that may break them.

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

1999. Summer. Portugal. Rafaela is ready to go. Faced with the ghosts of the past, the present and her uncertain future she has a big decision to make.

1999 explores a world that’s run by men but the repercussions are dealt by the women. Rooted in Portuguese beginnings, 1999 seeks to shed light on a true story, a sad, a family story.

“Isto não é 1974, eu posso dizer o que eu quero.”

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

'Would you trust AI with your love life? Spiralling over a guy who ghosted her, Em turns to ChatGPT for help. She just wants to feel better (and maybe get a text back). But when none of its suggestions for emotional closure land, the AI launches a Beta version: generating a series of 'Romantic Accountability Avatars'.

Soon, past matches, situationships, and exes begin materialising in her bedroom, forcing Em to confront her own attachment patterns.

So… sort of like A Christmas Carol, Hinge edition?

Exactly.

You Matched With… is a surreal rom-com about online dating in the age of apps and AI, the commodification of emotion, and the messy search for genuine connection.'

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

'Would you trust AI with your love life? Spiralling over a guy who ghosted her, Em turns to ChatGPT for help. She just wants to feel better (and maybe get a text back). But when none of its suggestions for emotional closure land, the AI launches a Beta version: generating a series of 'Romantic Accountability Avatars'.

Soon, past matches, situationships, and exes begin materialising in her bedroom, forcing Em to confront her own attachment patterns.

So… sort of like A Christmas Carol, Hinge edition?

Exactly.

You Matched With… is a surreal rom-com about online dating in the age of apps and AI, the commodification of emotion, and the messy search for genuine connection.'

Meet the Booming Lovelies! 

Boomers – Sharron Green, Trisha Broomfield and Heather Moulson – are brimming with nostalgic tales and bursting to share their impressions of modern life. All set to poetry, their verses on everything from lost loves, the menopause and gin, to the joys and complexities of life today, will have you nodding in recognition and rippling with laughter.

Since their first performance at the Guildford Fringe Festival in 2023, they’ve graced the stage at the Cranleigh and Farnham Literary Festivals, the Guildford Institute, and also appeared at The Spice of Life Soho, receiving stellar reviews… 

                         “Poignant, charming and laugh out loud funny! A real triumph”

All welcome – there’s something for everyone – so take your seats, relax and enjoy a wonderful performance. 

There will be an opportunity to meet the Booming Lovelies and purchase poetry souvenirs after the show.  https://rhymesnroses.com/the-booming-lovelies/

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

'Would you trust AI with your love life? Spiralling over a guy who ghosted her, Em turns to ChatGPT for help. She just wants to feel better (and maybe get a text back). But when none of its suggestions for emotional closure land, the AI launches a Beta version: generating a series of 'Romantic Accountability Avatars'.

Soon, past matches, situationships, and exes begin materialising in her bedroom, forcing Em to confront her own attachment patterns.

So… sort of like A Christmas Carol, Hinge edition?

Exactly.

You Matched With… is a surreal rom-com about online dating in the age of apps and AI, the commodification of emotion, and the messy search for genuine connection.'

Six friends. Three secrets. One yearning hope. In a tangled web of love, loyalty, shame, and survival, as six women discover their world isn’t what it seems. Beneath the surface of three “ordinary” lives lie stories of reproductive health struggles, sexual violence, and addiction — stories so familiar they could belong to us, our sisters, our mothers. As their masks fall away, we’re invited to recognise our own hidden truths, tucked deep into our bodies and away from those we love most.

These women call us into their circle — into song, dance, movement, breathwork, and collective release — as they fight to loosen trauma’s grip on the body. With irresistible energy and magnetic charm, Matty, Lala, Laure, Wrinkles, Z, and Chlo remind us healing is never a solo act. It’s messy, communal, vulnerable, and profoundly human.

At a time when isolation is the norm and intimacy outsourced to screens, Eyes See Song insists we return to each other — loudly, joyfully, in full-bodied presence. It’s two parts a warm hug from your favourite aunt, one part your best friend shaking you into your senses, and three parts what your nervous system has been craving.

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

A show for anyone who has been afraid to dip their toe in or felt all at sea. A true story about feeling exposed and learning to love both people and pond life. A ‘highly relatable’ true story that will leave you feeling ‘seen’. This is a show about the transformative power of chucking yourself in the deep end.
Naomi Wood (Gobbess) is ‘A force of nature’ who will reconnect you with the ferocious and ravenous within. This one woman show is funny, life affirming and many-tentacled and is for anyone who has ever been afraid.

Unloving is a dramatic deconstruction of Anna’s love life, baggage included. Hannah and Django take it upon themselves to re-enact their friend’s relationship from finish to start, and they want answers: how does love end? Why do we love each other the way we do? Is a theatre even the right place to tell this story?

For anyone who has found themselves ‘out of character’ in love, Unloving lifts the veil on how intimacy can make us come undone, the lasting ripple effects of lost love, and whether there is hope for any of us in the end.

Starring Hannah Chandler & Django Bevan

Written by Laura Derpic Burgos

Directed & Translated from the original Spanish by Miriam Price

A new work in development from Loan Word Theatre

1999. Summer. Portugal. Rafaela is ready to go. Faced with the ghosts of the past, the present and her uncertain future she has a big decision to make.

1999 explores a world that’s run by men but the repercussions are dealt by the women. Rooted in Portuguese beginnings, 1999 seeks to shed light on a true story, a sad, a family story.

“Isto não é 1974, eu posso dizer o que eu quero.”

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

Trigger warnings - 

Domestic violence, swearing, manipulation, coercive control, attempted suicide, substance abuse and sexual assault. 

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Making its fifth appearance, and third at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden, Noli is the festival for short films too experimental, too daring, too ‘amateur’, too cheap or simply too long for the mainstream circuit. We want to establish an independent network of our own that values cinema and creativity, outside of the corporatised events that have come to dominate the scene. With this event, you are buying into cinema culture, which means having an atmosphere to be part of, a place to hang out, your own corner of London that works for you and you work for it (ie. you enjoy it!). Find out more: nolishortfilmfestival.co.uk

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Your loved one just came out as a (GASP!) fan fiction writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbours think? What is Omega slick, anyway? Don't worry because fan fiction veteran MinaRoseTook is here to answer all your questions. Join us on an eclectic, hilarious, and heartfelt journey where we’ll explore transformative works: how fan fiction came to be, why people like it, why people hate it, and why it's a valid form of art. But this isn't going to be your usual lecture. It's part theatre, part puppet show, part writing exercise, and so much more. Who knows...maybe you'll even write something!

A one-woman show that celebrates storytellers.

“Deanna Strasse…has created a brilliant piece that is not only interesting but educational in a fun way.” — GJD Review, Colchester Fringe Festival
“Truly beautiful...I laughed until I cried.” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“This show SLAPS!” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“I’ve been thinking a lot about this show. It’s stuck with me.” - Lambeth Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

“A joy to watch!” - Colchester Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

Your loved one just came out as a (GASP!) fan fiction writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbours think? What is Omega slick, anyway? Don't worry because fan fiction veteran MinaRoseTook is here to answer all your questions. Join us on an eclectic, hilarious, and heartfelt journey where we’ll explore transformative works: how fan fiction came to be, why people like it, why people hate it, and why it's a valid form of art. But this isn't going to be your usual lecture. It's part theatre, part puppet show, part writing exercise, and so much more. Who knows...maybe you'll even write something!

A one-woman show that celebrates storytellers.

“Deanna Strasse…has created a brilliant piece that is not only interesting but educational in a fun way.” — GJD Review, Colchester Fringe Festival
“Truly beautiful...I laughed until I cried.” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“This show SLAPS!” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“I’ve been thinking a lot about this show. It’s stuck with me.” - Lambeth Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

“A joy to watch!” - Colchester Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

Your loved one just came out as a (GASP!) fan fiction writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbours think? What is Omega slick, anyway? Don't worry because fan fiction veteran MinaRoseTook is here to answer all your questions. Join us on an eclectic, hilarious, and heartfelt journey where we’ll explore transformative works: how fan fiction came to be, why people like it, why people hate it, and why it's a valid form of art. But this isn't going to be your usual lecture. It's part theatre, part puppet show, part writing exercise, and so much more. Who knows...maybe you'll even write something!

A one-woman show that celebrates storytellers.

“Deanna Strasse…has created a brilliant piece that is not only interesting but educational in a fun way.” — GJD Review, Colchester Fringe Festival
“Truly beautiful...I laughed until I cried.” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“This show SLAPS!” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“I’ve been thinking a lot about this show. It’s stuck with me.” - Lambeth Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

“A joy to watch!” - Colchester Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

Award winning comic Stephen Catling brings you his new WIP featuring some up and coming acts providing support.

When clowns can't breathe water and fish can't breathe air- what's a poor clownfish to do in this cruel world?
In 2025, Catling (Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee 2023 & 2025) lost his slug mask. It was an essential part of his hit show ‘Moving on...really really slowly.’

This time, Stephen explores his life now that Autism has been “unmasked,” as well as his fin flapping rage against an increasingly soulless entertainment industry who knows what is going to be in store? A burlesque performing cabbage/lettuce? A rendition of Robbie Williams musical biopic Betterman but they casted a real chimp? Rage against the machine (Generative AI)?
Disclaimer: The show is not going to be about a literal clownfish or finding nemo. A colleague back in his lab days described him lovingly as psychotic Mighty Boosh and The British comedy guide called him “A bucking bronco of surrealism and scruffiness” if this sounds like your bag welcome aboard the crazy train.

"His delivery is brilliantly playful" Everything Theatre

“This is a very different voice on the comedy circuit and one it is important to hear from.” Brighton and Hove news

"Very unique act in a strange but absolutely hilarious way had audience howling. " The Stand

"Magnificently irreverent...charming and utterly bonkers " The Review Hub
"Everything from silly one-liners, to props, to a surprisingly raw honesty that cuts through the surrealness like a knife" Fringe Fry Up

"He’s an interesting performer....I’d definitely like to see him again" Beyond the Joke (Bruce Dessau)

"I found myself at different times laughing out loud, staring wide-eye’d, gushing with joy & wondering what the damninnit was going on!" Mumble

This Machine Kills Fascists

By David Dunn

Songs by David Dunn 

This Machine Kills Fascists is a stage spectacle inspired by the life and work of Woody Guthrie, the legendary American folk singer and civil rights activists.

In the style of all Nuworks productions, it is Epic and as as one critic wrote: “an electrifying hybrid - a protest-song dressed in a theatrical form.” Its a faithful portrayal of Guthrie’s life and times. Woody was never known to compromise. He was as awkward and as flawed as he was committed to the cause of civil rights and working class people, no matter their ethnicity, colour or religion.

The force of the performance is the dramatic threads from Woody Guthrie's biography. His disdain of self seeking politicians, big corporations, and all those who sought to undermine the American Dream.

It was in this fight, led not by a rifle, but by song that his famous ‘war cry’ was born: ‘This machine kills fascists’, scrawled across Woody’s guitar.

The musical arrangements and choreography ( the songs, all originals by David Dunn in the style of Woody Guthrie ) recreate the sentiment of American protests in the 1940s. and 50. They may be read, at times, as  a commentary on modern politics and the fight for the rights of ordinary people today.

REVIEW: ’The atmosphere of this remarkable performance is perfectly captured in the intensity of emotion, light and energy of the actors. The production creates images that stay in your memory. This Machine Kills Fascists by Nuworks is ‘a spectacle that is not just performed, it's a show that is lived’.

1 hour 15minutes duration

Punk defines the politics and fashion of an era, it was brief, a phenomenon that burst like a storm of protest on an unsympathetic, uncompromisingly brutal political system and leader, devoid of compassion in pursuit of greatness and material gain.

Britain, not so Great….1970 and 80’s Margaret Thatcher…the iron lady….garbage strikes, miner closures, police brutality, unemployment, the IRA, race riots. All in response to what John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols  called the ‘shitsdom’.

Nuworks, A Punk Opera is a reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera which in itself is a reworking of John Gay’s The Beggars’ Opera 1728.

The basic story and characters belong to John Gay, Elizabeth Hauptmann and Brecht adding their Marxist doctrine. There’s no such overt political agenda in our reimagining. Nuworks is closer to John Gay with some sorry reflections on human foibles and hypocrisy than ideology. It’s not even a criticism of Thatcher, of whom, in fairness, it has been said was the leader Britain needed at the time. Debatable.

We’ve set the scene in Camden because that’s where it all began and we’re thrilled to be performing it in the deep heart of Camden, at Etcetra Theatre, in July 2026 as part of our Fringe tour.

In summary…its a great tale with all of the usual suspects…Macheath ( Mac the Knife ) the thoroughly dysfunctional Peachum family, Copper Green, not one of them with a single redeeming feature!

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

Some course contemporary language in dramatic context

This Machine Kills Fascists

By David Dunn

Songs by David Dunn 

This Machine Kills Fascists is a stage spectacle inspired by the life and work of Woody Guthrie, the legendary American folk singer and civil rights activists.

In the style of all Nuworks productions, it is Epic and as as one critic wrote: “an electrifying hybrid - a protest-song dressed in a theatrical form.” Its a faithful portrayal of Guthrie’s life and times. Woody was never known to compromise. He was as awkward and as flawed as he was committed to the cause of civil rights and working class people, no matter their ethnicity, colour or religion.

The force of the performance is the dramatic threads from Woody Guthrie's biography. His disdain of self seeking politicians, big corporations, and all those who sought to undermine the American Dream.

It was in this fight, led not by a rifle, but by song that his famous ‘war cry’ was born: ‘This machine kills fascists’, scrawled across Woody’s guitar.

The musical arrangements and choreography ( the songs, all originals by David Dunn in the style of Woody Guthrie ) recreate the sentiment of American protests in the 1940s. and 50. They may be read, at times, as  a commentary on modern politics and the fight for the rights of ordinary people today.

REVIEW: ’The atmosphere of this remarkable performance is perfectly captured in the intensity of emotion, light and energy of the actors. The production creates images that stay in your memory. This Machine Kills Fascists by Nuworks is ‘a spectacle that is not just performed, it's a show that is lived’.

1 hour 15minutes duration

Punk defines the politics and fashion of an era, it was brief, a phenomenon that burst like a storm of protest on an unsympathetic, uncompromisingly brutal political system and leader, devoid of compassion in pursuit of greatness and material gain.

Britain, not so Great….1970 and 80’s Margaret Thatcher…the iron lady….garbage strikes, miner closures, police brutality, unemployment, the IRA, race riots. All in response to what John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols  called the ‘shitsdom’.

Nuworks, A Punk Opera is a reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera which in itself is a reworking of John Gay’s The Beggars’ Opera 1728.

The basic story and characters belong to John Gay, Elizabeth Hauptmann and Brecht adding their Marxist doctrine. There’s no such overt political agenda in our reimagining. Nuworks is closer to John Gay with some sorry reflections on human foibles and hypocrisy than ideology. It’s not even a criticism of Thatcher, of whom, in fairness, it has been said was the leader Britain needed at the time. Debatable.

We’ve set the scene in Camden because that’s where it all began and we’re thrilled to be performing it in the deep heart of Camden, at Etcetra Theatre, in July 2026 as part of our Fringe tour.

In summary…its a great tale with all of the usual suspects…Macheath ( Mac the Knife ) the thoroughly dysfunctional Peachum family, Copper Green, not one of them with a single redeeming feature!

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

Some course contemporary language in dramatic context

In the stormy summer of 1816, Lord Byron invites famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his lover Mary and her stepsister Claire to holiday with him and his physician, John Polidori. One night, Byron proposes that they each write a ghost story to pass the time. Two years later, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is published. This play imagines what the conversations had on that pivotal night might have sounded like…

In the stormy summer of 1816, Lord Byron invites famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his lover Mary and her stepsister Claire to holiday with him and his physician, John Polidori. One night, Byron proposes that they each write a ghost story to pass the time. Two years later, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is published. This play imagines what the conversations had on that pivotal night might have sounded like…

Friends. Comrades. Enemies...

Caillte Lighthouse. The coast of Angus, North Sea, just after WW1.
Follow Mac and Morgan, two experienced keepers and their training of James, before things occur that question their loyalty, friendship and ultimately, their sanity. LIGHTHOUSE is a gripping piece that delves into the human psyche of trust, paranoia and greed with stylish, well-placed humour, jeopardy, suspense and a stellar cast.
Listed by The Herald as one of the Top 20 Must-See Shows of EdFringe 2022, LIGHTHOUSE will take you on a 55 minute journey to hell and back like no other.

‘Rock solid performances and a great sense of atmosphere go a long way to illuminate this new murder mystery thriller. Boasting simple effects which add greatly to the dread-filled atmosphere’
★★★★ The Scotsman

...real friends help you move a body.
An award winning black comedy about two inept Irish criminals who have dreams of pulling off a heist far beyond their minimal abilities. They plan to enlist the help of a local crime boss with a fearsome reputation for violence. What could possibly go wrong? Well, more or less everything.
Ambition, folly, violence, murder, revenge and... redemption? Friends Help You Move is a dark comedy thriller in one act written by John Ward.

Friends. Comrades. Enemies...

Caillte Lighthouse. The coast of Angus, North Sea, just after WW1.
Follow Mac and Morgan, two experienced keepers and their training of James, before things occur that question their loyalty, friendship and ultimately, their sanity. LIGHTHOUSE is a gripping piece that delves into the human psyche of trust, paranoia and greed with stylish, well-placed humour, jeopardy, suspense and a stellar cast.
Listed by The Herald as one of the Top 20 Must-See Shows of EdFringe 2022, LIGHTHOUSE will take you on a 55 minute journey to hell and back like no other.

‘Rock solid performances and a great sense of atmosphere go a long way to illuminate this new murder mystery thriller. Boasting simple effects which add greatly to the dread-filled atmosphere’
★★★★ The Scotsman

...real friends help you move a body.
An award winning black comedy about two inept Irish criminals who have dreams of pulling off a heist far beyond their minimal abilities. They plan to enlist the help of a local crime boss with a fearsome reputation for violence. What could possibly go wrong? Well, more or less everything.
Ambition, folly, violence, murder, revenge and... redemption? Friends Help You Move is a dark comedy thriller in one act written by John Ward.

...real friends help you move a body.
An award winning black comedy about two inept Irish criminals who have dreams of pulling off a heist far beyond their minimal abilities. They plan to enlist the help of a local crime boss with a fearsome reputation for violence. What could possibly go wrong? Well, more or less everything.
Ambition, folly, violence, murder, revenge and... redemption? Friends Help You Move is a dark comedy thriller in one act written by John Ward.

After debuting at the Lambeth Fringe in 2024 Abigail is finally coming back at the Camden Fringe. Abigail is a one-act monologue play by Nelma Vapaa-Jää that reimagines the relationship between Abigail Williams and John Proctor from Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The play offers a raw and unflinching exploration of Abigail's inner world. Through a series of confessions, reflections, and justifications, Abigail confronts the complex emotions and traumatic experiences that shaped her actions during the Salem witch trials. The play delves deep into themes of power, fear, love, and sexual assault, challenging both historical and contemporary perceptions of victims and perpetrators.
Abigail invites the audience to reconsider how stories of sexual violence are told and understood, both in the past and today. The play highlights the ongoing struggle for victims to have their voices heard and their pain acknowledged in a world that often prefers to dismiss or vilify them.

Nelma Vapaa-Jää, the creator and performer of Abigail, is a 28-year-old actor from Finland. Nelma graduated from the MFA Acting International course from East 15 Acting School in 2024. She is currently based in London and representing herself. She wants to create art that touches you and makes you think. Finland has a strong theater tradition and there are 73 professional theaters in Finland. Nelma draws from both Finnish and English traditions when creating theatre.

Friends. Comrades. Enemies...

Caillte Lighthouse. The coast of Angus, North Sea, just after WW1.
Follow Mac and Morgan, two experienced keepers and their training of James, before things occur that question their loyalty, friendship and ultimately, their sanity. LIGHTHOUSE is a gripping piece that delves into the human psyche of trust, paranoia and greed with stylish, well-placed humour, jeopardy, suspense and a stellar cast.
Listed by The Herald as one of the Top 20 Must-See Shows of EdFringe 2022, LIGHTHOUSE will take you on a 55 minute journey to hell and back like no other.

‘Rock solid performances and a great sense of atmosphere go a long way to illuminate this new murder mystery thriller. Boasting simple effects which add greatly to the dread-filled atmosphere’
★★★★ The Scotsman

...real friends help you move a body.
An award winning black comedy about two inept Irish criminals who have dreams of pulling off a heist far beyond their minimal abilities. They plan to enlist the help of a local crime boss with a fearsome reputation for violence. What could possibly go wrong? Well, more or less everything.
Ambition, folly, violence, murder, revenge and... redemption? Friends Help You Move is a dark comedy thriller in one act written by John Ward.

After debuting at the Lambeth Fringe in 2024 Abigail is finally coming back at the Camden Fringe. Abigail is a one-act monologue play by Nelma Vapaa-Jää that reimagines the relationship between Abigail Williams and John Proctor from Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The play offers a raw and unflinching exploration of Abigail's inner world. Through a series of confessions, reflections, and justifications, Abigail confronts the complex emotions and traumatic experiences that shaped her actions during the Salem witch trials. The play delves deep into themes of power, fear, love, and sexual assault, challenging both historical and contemporary perceptions of victims and perpetrators.
Abigail invites the audience to reconsider how stories of sexual violence are told and understood, both in the past and today. The play highlights the ongoing struggle for victims to have their voices heard and their pain acknowledged in a world that often prefers to dismiss or vilify them.

Nelma Vapaa-Jää, the creator and performer of Abigail, is a 28-year-old actor from Finland. Nelma graduated from the MFA Acting International course from East 15 Acting School in 2024. She is currently based in London and representing herself. She wants to create art that touches you and makes you think. Finland has a strong theater tradition and there are 73 professional theaters in Finland. Nelma draws from both Finnish and English traditions when creating theatre.

Friends. Comrades. Enemies...

Caillte Lighthouse. The coast of Angus, North Sea, just after WW1.
Follow Mac and Morgan, two experienced keepers and their training of James, before things occur that question their loyalty, friendship and ultimately, their sanity. LIGHTHOUSE is a gripping piece that delves into the human psyche of trust, paranoia and greed with stylish, well-placed humour, jeopardy, suspense and a stellar cast.
Listed by The Herald as one of the Top 20 Must-See Shows of EdFringe 2022, LIGHTHOUSE will take you on a 55 minute journey to hell and back like no other.

‘Rock solid performances and a great sense of atmosphere go a long way to illuminate this new murder mystery thriller. Boasting simple effects which add greatly to the dread-filled atmosphere’
★★★★ The Scotsman

What if the dinner was the play?

Maria-Rapaz (Tomboy) unfolds around a table, where food is the plot and eating is the dramaturgy. This is not theatre about food — it is theatre through food.

Set between a pristine fine-dining kitchen and the warm chaos of a home kitchen, this work follows two women as they cook, eat, talk, and reveal what often goes unseen.

Drawing on Portuguese family recipes and queer experience, Maria-Rapaz asks: what counts as art? Who gets recognised? And what kinds of knowledge travel when we share a meal? The audience is invited to sit, to taste, and to witness a story about what it means to be sustained — not just fed — in a world that rewards spectacle over care.

Tickets are available at two prices: one includes light bites served as part of the performance (not a full meal), and a lower-priced option is available for audiences who wish to watch without food.
Event Details

Genre: Theatre

Duration: 60 mins

Price: £9

Social Media

Web: joanapereiradacosta.com/

Instagram onthetipofhertongue.jpc

Information

Suitable for ages: 16 and over

World premiere

See venue page for accessibility information.

What if the dinner was the play?

Maria-Rapaz (Tomboy) unfolds around a table, where food is the plot and eating is the dramaturgy. This is not theatre about food — it is theatre through food.

Set between a pristine fine-dining kitchen and the warm chaos of a home kitchen, this work follows two women as they cook, eat, talk, and reveal what often goes unseen.

Drawing on Portuguese family recipes and queer experience, Maria-Rapaz asks: what counts as art? Who gets recognised? And what kinds of knowledge travel when we share a meal? The audience is invited to sit, to taste, and to witness a story about what it means to be sustained — not just fed — in a world that rewards spectacle over care.

Tickets are available at two prices: one includes light bites served as part of the performance (not a full meal), and a lower-priced option is available for audiences who wish to watch without food.
Event Details

Genre: Theatre

Duration: 60 mins

Price: £9

Social Media

Web: joanapereiradacosta.com/

Instagram onthetipofhertongue.jpc

Information

Suitable for ages: 16 and over

World premiere

See venue page for accessibility information.

Just Elsie: Mariarch The Musical – A Story of Every Family
​Experience a heartwarming journey following Elsie and her three daughters - Florence, Violet and Sandra. This soaring musical captures a lifetime of resilience and the unbreakable bond of family through the decades.
It celebrates the woman who holds it all together.
Don’t miss this timeless story of legacy and devotion. Because, after all, everyone has an Elsie.

Just Elsie: Mariarch The Musical – A Story of Every Family
​Experience a heartwarming journey following Elsie and her three daughters - Florence, Violet and Sandra. This soaring musical captures a lifetime of resilience and the unbreakable bond of family through the decades.
It celebrates the woman who holds it all together.
Don’t miss this timeless story of legacy and devotion. Because, after all, everyone has an Elsie.

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.